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Cultural Choice and Political Identity in Honorific Portrait Statues in the Greek East in the Second Century A.D.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2012

R. R. R. Smith
Affiliation:
Lincoln College, Oxford

Extract

The towns of the Middle Roman Empire have left an array of grand columned marble architecture that makes classical sites, from Merida to Ephesus, still so imposing for the modern viewer. The great benefactors who paid for this strange marble culture and for everything else thought worthwhile in an ancient city received large public portrait statues set up on tall elegant moulded bases, set either in columned façades or posted around town at focal points of urban life (see below, Figs 1–2). In their method of signification these statue monuments shared more with poster hoardings than the gallery objects we think of as art. That is, they combined a commanding image with a loud complementary text. They were also different from the public statues of our own times in at least three other important respects — in their prominence, in their sheer quantity, and in that they mostly represented living persons. They were not isolated memorials but potent markers in local politics and aristocratic competition. Architectural setting, inscribed base, statue costume, and styled portrait head all combined to make sometimes complex statements about the subject.

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48 Copenhagen bust, PL V, 1: Poulsen II, no. 154. On the type: Zanker, Mask, 226, with figs 107 (Seneca, Berlin), 123 (Thessaloniki), 129 (Capitoline), 132 (Copenhagen), 133 (Theon, Capitoline), 136 (so-called ‘Polemon’, Athens). Others: below, nn. 109–10.

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52 The two statues from Aphrodisias, Pl. V, 3–4: Erirn, K. T., Smith, R. R. R., ‘Sculpture from the theatre’, Aphrodisias Papers 2 (1991), 6798Google Scholar, at 83–4, no. 18, figs 20a–b (with captions reversed). On their portrait heads: below, n. 141. For the Coan statues: Kabus-Preisshofen, nos 33–4, 36–7.

53 Polaschek, op. cit. (n. 51); Rosenbaum, Cyrene, nos 114–28; Bieber, Copies, figs 625–36. On the statue, Pl VI, 1: below, n. 57.

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55 Dio 36.7. A part of good old-fashioned Hellenic manners: Plutarch, Phocion 4. This schēma or pose is called a sōphrosynēs paradeigma in Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione, 251; cf. Zanker, Mask, 46–9.

56 There is an example from the group of statues that decorated the stage-building of the Bouleuterion at Aphrodisias (to be published by C. H. Hallett): see provisionally, Erim, K. T., Aphrodisias: A Guide to the Site and its Museum (1989), 87, no. 38, fig 122. Menander: above, n. 39.Google Scholar

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63 Julia Domna's portraits: Fittschen, in FZ III, nos 28–30.

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65 Provisionally: Bieber, ch. 12; cf. E. A. Schmidt, Römische Frauenstatuen (1967).

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67 Preliminary publication: Smith and Ratté, op. cit. (n. 58), 20–2, figs 16–18.

68 Hannestad, N., Tradition in Late Antique Sculpture (1994), 160Google Scholar, thinks this statue should be dated in the fifth century A.D., but on several external grounds this is very unlikely. The large scale, technical handling of hair and drapery, un-drilled eyes, form of toga, and apparently detailed statement of equestrian status, in my opinion, all speak decisively against it. The statue belongs clearly in the early to mid-second century, perhaps c. A.D. 120–140. See further, Smith and Ratté, op. cit. (n. 58), 21–2. On Hannestad's chronology of Roman sculpture, see the review of Claridge, A., ‘Late antique reworking of the Ara Pacis and other imperial sculptures’, JRA 10 (1997), 447–53Google Scholar.

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72 On a common veiled portrait statue type with the attributes of Demeter-Ceres: Bieber, Copies, ch. 13. A well preserved example from Aphrodisias: IR I, no. 230, which was paired with a statue of an unveiled younger woman (IR I, no. 229) — they were perhaps a mother and daughter.

73 IR II, no. 225.

74 IR I, no. 287.

75 IR I, II, nos 228 and 234.

76 cf. Swain, op. cit. (n. 1), ch. 3, ‘Past and Present’.

77 He is Halfmann, no. 36.

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79 OGIS 411–13. The inscription below the righthand statue, like that of the righthand pilaster of the central niche (below, n. 82), are now lost but were drawn and recorded by Cyriacus of Ancona in 1436 (his drawing is known now only in a copy by Giuliano da Sangallo): see Kleiner, op. cit. (n. 78), 23, pl. XXXV. These two inscriptions are not shown in Stuart and Revett's reconstruction illustrated here, Fig.3.

80 On the unusual iconography of a consul processing in a chariot — probably not Philopappus' inauguration or processus consularis (as usually said), but rather a metaphorical consular pompa(?): Schäfer, op. cit. (n. 41), 182–3, 380–1.

81 OGIS 409.

82 OGIS 410.

83 OGIS 412.

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86 Below, nn. 176 (Rome), 182 (Greek East).

87 He is Halfmann, no. 16.

88 IR I, no. 144.

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91 J. Keil in Wilberg, op. cit. (n. 89), 71–3, nos 8–11; I Ephesos 5108–11. The statues: F. Eichler in Wilberg, op. cit. (n. 89), 47–57, figs 95–100; Oberleitner, W., Funde aus Ephesos und Samothrake (1978), 113–15, nos 159–62.Google Scholar

92 J. Keil in Wilberg, op. cit. (n. 89), 66–71, nos 4–7; I Ephesos 5104–7. On the cuirassed statue, also: F. Eichler in Wilberg, op. cit. (n. 89), 57–9, fig. 101.

93 Syme, op. cit. (n. 34, 1988), 17.

94 Scherrer, op. cit. (n. 89), 132.

95 Wilberg, op. cit. (n. 89), 10–18, figs 18, 28, 29, 32; Schäfer, op. cit. (n. 41), 210, 374, Cat. B 2.

96 Discussed further below, at nn. 176 (Rome), 182 (East).

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100 Bol, op. cit. (n. 98), 165, no. 33, pl. 26. This is one of three headless togati (ibid., 164–7, nos 32–4, pls 24–8) to be attributed to the upper register of the monument — two should be for Regilla's father and grandfather, leaving one for Herodes or his father. On the head wearing a priest's fillet, hypothetically associated by Bol, ibid., 165–9, with the fragmentary togatus, no. 34, see further below, n. 150.

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103 Kephisia bust (Pl. X, 1–2): Datsoule-Stavride, 50–1, inv. 4810, pls 50–3. Probalinthos bust (Pl. X, 3–4) : de Kersauson, op. cit. (n. 23), no. 132.

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109 IR II, nos 116–17.

110 Anticki Portret u Jugoslaviji, op. cit. (n. 3), nos 113 (head from Herakleia Lyncestis), 115–16 (two imation busts from Styberra).

111 Lattanzi, E., I ritratti dei Cosmeti (1968)Google Scholar.

112 Lattanzi, op. cit. (n. III), no. 8. Fittschen, ‘Ritratti maschili’, 455, figs 8.1–2, sees a specific ‘assimilation’ to the main portrait type of Aelius Verus (ibid., fig. 8. 3–4). Imperial-style period-faces are rare among the surviving portraits of kosmetai after the mid-second century.

113 Lattanzi, op. cit. (n. 111), nos 6 (Perikles-like) and 22 (Aeschines-like).

114 Lattanzi, op. cit. (n. 111), no. 18.

115 Lattanzi, op. cit. (n. 111), no. 9.

116 cf. von den Hoff, op. cit. (n. 42); Zanker, Mask, ch. 3.

117 For example, Zanker, Mask, 236–9, figs 128, 130, two portrait heads with a ‘new Antisthenes’ styling.

118 Hahn, op. cit. (n. 1), 33–45.

119 MAMA VIII, 499; cf. Hahn, op. cit. (n. 1), 161–2.

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121 So Richter, ibid., following Lippold, G., and still Schefold, K., Die Bildnisse der antiken Dichter, Redner, und Denker (rev. edn. 1997), 360, fig. 231.Google Scholar

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128 IR I, no. 151 (‘Flavius Damianus’).

129 He is PIR 2 F 253. Epigraphic career outlined in I Ephesos VII. 1, p. 90, and VIII. 2, p. 206.

130 Dillon, S., ‘The portraits of a civic benefactor of 2nd-c. Ephesos’, JRA 9 (1996), 261–74Google Scholar.

131 IR I, no. 150.

132 I Ephesos VII. 1, pp. 88–9; Dillon, op. cit. (n. 130), 272–3, with lit. n. 41.

133 Lecture by the excavator of Loukou, Sp. Spyropoulos, London, Nov. 1996.

134 Pindar's portrait: Smith, R. R. R., ‘Late Roman philosopher portraits from Aphrodisias,’ JRS 90 (1990), 127–55Google Scholar, at 132–5, no. 1, pls VI–VII; Bergemann, J., ‘Pindar: Das Bildnis eines konservativen Dichters’, AM 106 (1991), 157–89Google Scholar.

135 Agora I, no. 25.

136 IG II2 1809 (date: ‘fin. s. II p.’).

137 IR I.no. 185 and above, n. 4.

138 Oberleitner, W., ‘Zwei spätantiken Kaiserköpfe aus Ephesos’, Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 69 (1973), 127–65Google Scholar, at 127–52.

139 These observations are best controlled in FZ I and III. Evers, op. cit. (n. 29), does not give a figure for the proportion of Hadrian's c. 150 extant portraits that have engraved eyes. Fittschen, ‘Ritrattimaschili’, 448, n. 10, estimates that of the portraits of Antinous, which were for the most part probably made, it can be assumed, between 130 and 138, about half have the pupils and irises engraved.

140 There are perhaps some 30–40 examples extant. Some examples, mainly Western, have been well discussed by Fittschen, ‘Ritratti maschili’, 463–85, who sees nearly all of them as Hadrianic in date, placing them in the narrow time span, between the introduction of engraved eyes, c. 130, and the death of Hadrian in 138. But this does not accord well with the emphatic (later, post-140) rendering of the eyes on many of the examples; and the death of Hadrian in this context is probably a false terminus (these images are not really concerned with or connected to anything specifically ‘Hadrianic’). For Fittschen's interpretation of the phenomenon, below, n. 162. For Eastern examples, below, nn. 141–53.

141 From the theatre (Pl. XIII, 1): IR II, no. 194. From the bouleuterion (Pl. XIII, 2): IR I, no. 239. cf. Fittschen, ‘Ritratti maschili’, 467, 470. For their statues (Pl V, 3–4): above, n. 52.

142 From the Levant, Pl XII, 2, a small herm portrait with funerary inscription for one Rhoummas: S. Walker, Memorials to the Roman Dead (1985), 61, fig. 49 (before A.D. 150).

143 Fittschen, ‘Ritratti maschili’, 485, figs 27. 3–4; idem in Bouzek and Ondřejová, op. cit. (n. 14), 34–5, with lit. n. 28, pl. 10, figs 11–12.

144 Above, nn. 52, 141.

145 Moiragenes (Pl XII, 1): above, n. 135. Agora wreathed head (Pl XII, 4): Agora I, no. 43 (‘ca. A.D. 235–245’, by comparison with the portraits of Maximinus Thrax). Copenhagen head (Pl XII, 3): Poulsen II, no. 61 (second century).

146 Hinks, R., Greek and Roman Portrait Sculpture (2nd edn, 1976), 93, fig. 73 (‘may be as late as the fourth century’)Google Scholar.

147 IR I, no. 257 (‘Constantinian’). Note also the small ‘Constantinian’ head in London from Cyrene: Rosenbaum, Cyrene, no. 99 — perhaps recarved from a second-century head(?).

148 Above, nn. 4, 137–8.

149 Bejor, G., Hierapolis III: Le statue (1991), no. 20, pls 22–3.Google Scholar

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151 IR I, no. 282 (Tetrarchic); IR II, pl. 273. 1, head joined to himation body; and esp. Frey, W., ‘Das Bildnis eines Kaiserpriesters aus Pompeiopolis in Kilikien’, Ant. Welt 13.3 (1982), 2739Google Scholar (mid-third century). Frey's precise date of A.D. 235–54, carefully argued on external grounds from the historical interpretation of the large letters carved in relief on the front of the crown (GMAKB), may need to be reconsidered in the light of some features that seem to speak against it. The himation statue seems clearly of the middle imperial period; the small imperial busts on the crown are full-bearded, and therefore probably not of emperors after 212; and the light beard of the portrait is simply picked into the smooth, clean-shaven surface of the face — which together with the drilled eyes belongs best in the middle or later second century. It might then need to be argued that the original statue was a clean-shaven portrait of the kind under discussion, of the mid-second century, with the light beard added in the mid-third century. Such light picking of beards into the faces of clean-shaven early and middle imperial-period portraits, carried out later, in the third or early fourth centuries, is well-attested elsewhere — for example, on the early second-century togatus from Ostia (so-called ‘Maxentius’): Andreae, B., Art of Rome (1977), pl. 149Google Scholar; Goette, op. cit. (n. 49), 49, pl. 19. 5.

152 Özgan, R., ‘Ein spätantikes Porträt in Fethiye’, in Başgelen, N. and Lugal, M. (eds), Festschrift für Jale Inan (1989), 291–3, pls 129–30 (Constantinian)Google Scholar.

153 Comstock, M. B. and Vermeule, C. C., Sculpture in Stone: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1976), no. 357Google Scholar; IR II, no. 215 (late Hadrianic or early Antonine). Discussed further below.

154 Aurenhammer, M. in Thür, H. (ed.), ‘… und verschönerte die Stadt’: Ein ephesischer Priester de Kaiserkultes in seinem Umfeld (1997), 4152Google Scholar. An attractive hypothetical identification as Ti. Claudius Aristion, the asiarch and princeps Ephesiorum of Pliny Letters 6.31.3, is proposed later in the same volume: P. Scherrer, ibid., 113–28.

155 Evidence, mainly numismatic, for this group collected by the present writer in Hellenistic Royal Portraits (1988), ch. 13, ‘Romans and Their Friends’.

156 Above, n. 153.

157 Plutarch, An seni sit gerenda respublica? or Should Old Men take Part in Politics?—the answer, naturally, is affirmative; cf. Swain, op. cit. (n. 1), 183–4.

158 Oliver, J. H., The Sacred Gerusia (1941), 50Google Scholar: ‘The imperial government … gave spontaneously its support to this institution wherein the membership … was drawn entirely from the aristocratic, conservative, heartily pro-Roman elements of the population.’

159 Above, nn. 52, 151.

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162 Fittschen, ‘Ritratti maschili’, 478, briefly evokes some kind of opposition to the Caesars as a possible interpretation of this class of portraits in the West: ‘… una forma di opposizione contro il dominio imperiale, riccorrendo a modelli repubblicani (basta pensare allo storico Tacito)’. In my opinion, this is unlikely, both as a possible goal of such images and because some of the figures who deploy this self-styling in the Hadrianic hunt tondi (above, n. 160) were demonstrably among the emperor's closest supporters.

163 Walker, S., ‘Bearded men’, Journal of the History of Collections 3.2 (1991), 265–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar = eadem, Greek and Roman Portraits (1995), ch. 8: ‘Bearded and Beardless Men’, at p. 88; Zanker, Mask, 220; Swain, op. cit. (n. 1), 83–5, 215–16. Most recently on this text: D. Braund, ‘The Black Sea region and Hellenism under the early empire’, in Alcock, op. cit. (n. 1), 126–31.

164 Smith, op. cit. (n. 155), 125–30; Giuliani, op. cit. (n. 10); cf. K. Fittschen, ‘Pathossteigerung und Pathosdämpfung: Bemerkungen zu griechischen und römischen Porträts des 2. und i. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.’, AA (1991), 253–70; P. Zanker, ‘Individuum und Typus: Zur Bedeutung des realistischen Individualporträts der späten Republik’, AA (1995), 473–81 (an earlier version of the same paper was published later in Roman Portraits, Artistic and Literary, op. cit. (n. 14), 9–15). The participants in the debate about the contemporary political meaning of the ‘republican’ portrait style have not yet quite reached an agreed formulation.

165 Zanker, ‘Zur Bildnisrepräsentation führender Männer’, op. cit. (n. 11); Goette, op. cit. (n. 49), 20–8.

166 Good selection: Hofter, M., ‘Porträt’, in Kaiser Augustus und die verlorene Republik (Exhib. Berlin, 1988), 291343Google Scholar

167 For example, in the portrait type of L. Calpurnius Piso(?): ibid., no. 152.

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170 Banker, L. Caecilius Iucundus: De Franciscis, op. cit. (n. 168), 31–4, figs 17–20. Actor, Norbanus Sorex: ibid., 27–30, figs 14–15.

171 Galba: Kent, J. P. C., Hirmer, M. and Hirmer, A., Roman Coins (1978), nos 210–14Google Scholar. Vespasian: Bergmann and Zanker, op. cit. (n. 32), 332–5.

172 Many examples in Daltrop, op. cit. (n. 17); Goette, op. cit. (n. 12); Fittschen, ‘Ritratti maschili’.

173 Cain, op. cit. (n. 32), 58–78, 81–104.

174 Cain, op. cit. (n. 32), 86–95.

175 Nero and Otho: Kent and Hirmer, op. cit. (n. 171), nos 192–205, 216–17. Domitian: above, n. 32.

176 Soldiers and lictors in Flavian and Trajanic reliefs: F. Magi, I Rilievi Flavi (1965), pls 13, 17a, 19a (bearded); Bonnano, A., ‘Imperial and private portraiture: a case of non-dependence’, in Bonacasa, N. and Rizza, G. (eds), Ritratto Ufficiale e ritratto privato: Atti delta II Conferenza Internazionale sul ritratto Romano, 1984 (1988), 157–64Google Scholar; idem, op. cit. (n. 160), 52–94. Charioteers: Giuliano, A. (ed.), Museo Nazionale Romano: Le sculture 1.9 (1987), R 115, R 126–30, R 193Google Scholar — a group of busts and herms from the sanctuary of Hercules Cubans in Rome. R 193 is bearded, and therefore usually dated in the Hadrianic period. The group may offer however not so much a lesson in linear chronology as a conspectus of broadly contemporary, first-century portrait styles. Best illustrations: Nash, E., Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1968)Google Scholar, s.v. Hercules Cubans; cf. Nista, L. (ed.), Sacellum Herculis (1991)Google Scholar. Other pre-Hadrianic, bearded portraits: Daltrop, op. cit. (n. 17), 60–3; Cain, op. cit. (n. 32), 100–4, with list in n. 249.

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178 Kabus-Preisshofen, nos 36–7, 41–2.

179 Aphrodisias: IR II, no. 181 (‘Trajan’). Athens: Datsoule-Stavride, 24–8, inv. 331, 3118, 4453, 353, 437, pls 6–14.

180 Athens: Agora I, nos 18–19. Ephesus: Aurenhammer, op. cit. (n. 154).

181 For example, Aphrodisias: Erim, K. T., ‘Recent work at Aphrodisias 1986–1988’, in Roueché, C. and Erim, K.T. (eds), Aphrodisias Papers 1, JRA Suppl. 1. (1990), 936Google Scholar, at 20, fig. 22. Athens: Datsoule-Stavride, 49, 56–7, inv. 420, 2350, pls 47, 62.

182 Adana: Bruns-Özgan, C. and Özgan, R., ‘Eine bronzene Bildnisstatue aus Kilikien’, Antike Plastik 23 (1994), 8192Google Scholar, pls 37–43. Athens: Datsoule-Stavride, 53–5, inv. 372, 342, 3985, pls 57–9 (three bearded portrait heads with hairstyles that could be dated anywhere between the later first and early second century). Delphi: P. de la Coste-Messeliere, Delphi (1943), pls 195–7 (‘Flamininus’ head). Lampsacus: here, Pl. III, 3. Philopappus and Celsus: here, Pl. VIII, 3–4.

183 cf. above n. 24 (Dio on not too much philosophy for the good emperor).

184 Hist.Aug., Hadrian 26.

185 Rosenbaum, Cyrene, no. 34.

186 cf. Wrede, H., Die antike Herme (1988), 71–8Google Scholar.

187 A theme in the correspondence of Fronto – for example, Ad Amicos I.4 (Loeb, pp. 288–9), a letter of recommendation for Julius Aquilinus; cf. E. Champlin, Fronto and Antonine Rome (1980), 33–4. The language of humanitas, civilitas, and eloquentia, and their visual expression in personal elegantia and cura capillorum is boiled down to essentials in the brief verbal sketches of the appearance and characters of the Antonine emperors given by the Historia Augusta: see Hadrian 26; Aelius 5; Pius 2; Verus 10.

188 ‘Non-dependence’: Bonnano, op. cit. (n. 176). Questo fenomeno della non-imitazione’: Fittschen, ‘Ritratti maschili’, 478.