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Portrait bust of an unidentified Roman man wearing a toga. The head was reworked in the Constantinian period from an earlier portrait; the bust and the inscribed foot are also earlier and originally unrelated. The inscription records a dedication by Furius Maechius Gracchus to his father, Cethegus.
Date Head: reworked in the first half of the 4th century CE; bust: first half of the 3rd century CE
Medium marble
Dimensions height: 88 cm (34.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,88U174728
(with bust); height: 35 cm (13.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,35U174728
(head and neck)
institution QS:P195,Q333906
Current location
Stanza del Fauno
Accession number
700
Object history In the collection of Ippolito Vitalleschi by 1654; later in the Albani collection.
Inscriptions CETHEGO V C PATRI / F MAECHIVS / GRACCHVS V C  (CIL VI, 1709)
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