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IMPORTANT ROMAN OVER LIFE-SIZE MARBLE STATUE OF AN EMPRESS AS DEMETER Holding three poppy pods and wearing a himation beautifully draped about her shoulders, and a diadem on top of her curly coiffure. The physiognomy and coiffure are very much like those of the empress Domitia, the wife of Domitian, of which this is most probably a likeness. Right arm restored. Surface of garments reworked in 18th-19th century. Cf. the portrait of Domitia in V. Poulsen, Les portraits romains, vol. 2, no. 13. Pub.: Royal-Athena, Ancient Roman Marble Sculpture, p. 4 and AAW 1985, no. 258. Ex collection of HSH the Prince of Liechtenstein; Dino Fabbri, Milan-Paris; John Kluge collection, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1997-2007. Ca. 80-96 AD H. 75 in. (190 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2008, no. 11 Art of the Ancient World, 1985, no. 285 KJ0703M SOLD FULL-SCREEN FLASH SLIDESHOW |
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Domitia Longina, born ca. AD 53, was the youngest daughter of a Roman General and Consul, Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo. Before AD 70, she married Lucius Aelius Plautius Lamia Aelianus, but Domitian, according to Suetonius, became infatuated with her and forced her to divorce and then married her. In AD 81, upon the death of his brother Titus, Domitian became Emperor and Domitia was granted the title of Augusta. Always referring to herself as the emperor’s wife even decades after Domitian’s death, she remained an important personality in Rome until her death sometime before AD 126 when a temple was dedicated to her in Gabii. |
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