Portrait of Plato
Luni marble. Roman copy after a Greek original created by Silanion ca. 370 BCE.
Inv. No. S 1377.Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, II. 67Photo by Sergey Sosnovskiy
Portrait of Plato.
Luni marble. Roman copy after a Greek original created by Silanion ca. 370 BCE.
Inv. No. S 1377.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, II. 67
(Roma, Musei capitolini, Museo Centrale Montemartini).
Origin:
From the Sacred area in Largo Argentina (1925).
Description:
Copy after the statue created by the renowned portrait-sculptor Silanion. The original, commissioned by Mithridates, was dedicated to the Muses in the Academy, seat of the philosophical school founded by Plato in Athens.
Credits:
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