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Title: Portrait head of Oecumenius, Salamis, Cyprus (E 487)
Start date: 300
End date: 499
Historical Period: Early Byzantine/Late Antique Period
Description: 

Overlife size portrait head of Oecumenius. Salamis (Cyprus). Cyprus Museum (E 487); “wreath-hairstyle”; the person depicted can be identified on physiognomical grounds with a certain Oecumenius, whose statue monument is found in Aphrodisias. Oecumenius was an imperial governor (praeses) of Caria and may have been awarded a statue on Cyprus because it was his native city or because he was a governor of Cyprus at the rank of consularis. If the latter were the case, the Cypriote monument would post-date the Aphrodisian one; late 4th to early fifth century.

Size: H: 27.5 cm.
Place: Cyprus Archaeological Museum, Cyprus  
Languages: No linguistic content; Not applicable
Medium: marble (rock)
Project: BYZART Project  
Fond: OUC Georgios Deligiannakis Archive  
Physical type: statues
Material and technique: sculpture in the round
Data provider: Open University of Cyprus  
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