Trajan Places: Establishing Identity and Context for the Bosham and Hawkshaw Heads

Russell, Miles; Manley, Harry

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“…37 Henig 1996, 83;Soffe and Henig 1999, 9;Russell and Manley 2015. ultimately fruitless campaign against the Caledonian tribes to the north of the frontier, finally dying in York. During the course of the war, the imperial family and their retainers may well have been housed in the praetorium of the legionary fortress, 40 Eboracum at that time becoming the de facto political heart of the Empire.…”

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Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate Monumental Head from York

Russell¹

2018

Britannia

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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.

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Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate Monumental Head from York

Russell¹

2018

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London's Hadrianic War?

Perring¹

2017

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Recent work has advanced our understanding of human crania found in London's upper Walbrook valley, where skull deposition appears to have peaked during the occupation of the Cripplegate fort, itself probably built soon after London's Hadrianic fire. Although this fire is usually considered to have been accidental, parallels can be drawn with London's Boudican destruction. This article explores the possibility that these three strands of Hadrianic evidence — fire, fort and skulls — find common explanation in events associated with a British war of this period. This might support the identification of some Walbrook skulls as trophy heads, disposed asnoxiiin wet places in the urbanpomerium.

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Two portraits of Agrippa Postumus in the British Museum

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Manley

2021

J. Roman Archaeol.

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Two damaged and partially restored Roman portraits in the collection of the British Museum, previously identified as either the emperor Caligula or an unknown “Julio-Claudian prince,” are here reassessed and identified as Agrippa Postumus, the youngest grandson and adopted heir of Augustus. The first portrait, from southern Britain, may have come from a temple dedicated to the worship of the Julio-Claudian house, while the second was probably part of an equestrian group standing outside the Aedes Castoris in Rome. This is a significant reinterpretation, providing potential evidence not only for links between Rome's first family and the rulers of a distant client kingdom, but also for the framing of imperial power and the uncertain nature of the Augustan succession in the early years of the 1st c. CE.

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Trajan Places: Establishing Identity and Context for the Bosham and Hawkshaw Heads

Cited by 4 publications

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Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate Monumental Head from York

Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate Monumental Head from York

London's Hadrianic War?

Two portraits of Agrippa Postumus in the British Museum

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