Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate Monumental Head from York
Authors: Russell, M.
Journal: Britannia
Volume: 49
Issue: November
Pages: 211-224
ISSN: 0068-113X
Abstract:A damaged and badly weathered stone head, discovered prior to 1823 in York, and interpreted as an early portrait of the emperor Constantine I, is here re-examined and identified as a modified image of an earlier, deified emperor, almost certainly Hadrian. A re-analysis of the image as it survives today further suggests that the recarving, into a likeness of Constantine, occurred after A.D. 312 and not, as widely believed, at the moment of Constantine’s proclamation as emperor in York in A.D. 306
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