Marble Bust of Emperor Hadrian

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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Hadrian, like most Roman emperors, used statues to diffuse his image across the Roman World. Statues often showed the emperor as a general or priest. This bust shows Hadrian naked. This nakedness, originally a Greek style, showed that the Emperor was heroic and almost god-like. Roman, 117-138 CE. Probably from Rome, Italy. Formerly in the collection of Charles Townley. (The British Museum, London).

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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