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ToolsRussell, M., 2018. Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate Monumental Head from York. Britannia, 49 (November), 211-224.
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DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X18000090
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
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 0068-113X |
| Additional Information: | Published online 5th March 2018 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Constantine; Hadrian; sculpture; imperial portraiture; identity realignment; York |
| Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
| ID Code: | 31480 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
| Deposited On: | 21 Nov 2018 16:29 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:13 |
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