Roman original or deliberate fake?
A private collection in Cordoba contains a previously unpublished bronze head. It is not a Roman original. Its iconographic incongruences and its intentional fractures suggest a malicious intention in its manufacture. It is possibly a fake that someone intended to introduce in the art market. A second bronze portrait of the same personage belongs to a private collection in Murcia. It has similarly never been made known. It is also a modern sculpture, confirming the non-ancient origin of the bronze in Cordoba. The joint study of the two objects can serve as a methodological example of the procedure to detect modern fakes of bronze portraits with an antique appearance.
Authors
- David Ojeda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5379-8069)
Institutions
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Dissertationes Archaeologicae
- Published
- 2024-09-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.suppl4.169
- Primary Topic
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00