Bronze statue of the emperor Augustus (NAMA X 23322)
The bronze statue of Emperor Augustus in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NAMA) with the inventory number X 23322 is dated back to the year 10 BC. Dated.
The remains of an equestrian statue were found in 1979 between the islands of Agios Efstratios and Euboea in the Aegean Sea . The statue was cast from bronze; the preserved part has a height of 1.23 m. From the former equestrian statue only the upper body of the rider, the first Roman emperor Augustus, is preserved. He wears a tunic and a paludamentum , a general's cloak that is placed around his right shoulder and also falls over his left arm. It is attached to the left shoulder with a fibula . The hem is decorated with a meander pattern and fringes. The sword can also be seen on his left side. The emperor holds the reins of the horse with his left hand, with his right raised hand he makes a blessing gesture or holds it upwards in the gesture of the speaker. The facial features only permit clear identification with Augustus (so-called "octavian type"). The eye sockets are empty, in ancient times the eyes were probably set in ivory and inlaid separately.
The composition of the bronze suggests that the statue was created in Greece.
literature
- Nikolaos Kaltsas : Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2002 ISBN 0-89236-686-9 , p. 318.
- Evi Touloupa: Bronze equestrian statue of Augustus . In: Emperor Augustus and the lost republic . Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-1048-X , pp. 311–313.
Web links
- Upper body of an equestrian statue of Augustus in the Arachne archaeological database