Portrait of Claudia Olympias
Portrait of Claudia Olympias
3D
Published 2019-09-23T08:18:35+00:00
This bust of Claudia Olympias is most likely to have come from Rome or its immediate surroundings. Two further inscriptions mention a Claudia Olympias, daughter of Tiberius, and may therefore refer to the same person, who died aged 49 and a half years after 33 years of marriage.
Her coiffure is typical of the late Trajanic and early Hadrianic periods. The inscription on the base reads:
MEMORIAE
CL · TI · F · OLYMPIADIS
EPITHYMETVS · LIB
PATRONAE · PIENTISSIMAE
Inscription Transliteration
Memoriae
Cl(audiae) Ti(beri) f(iliae) Olympiadis
Epithymetus lib(ertus)
patronae pientissimae
Inscription Translation
Epithymetus, a freedman, (set this up) in memory of a most dutiful patron, Claudia Olympias, daughter of Tiberius.
| Date published | 23/09/2019 |
| Schwierigkeitsgrad | Medium |
| Title | Portrait of Claudia Olympias |
| Date | ca. 110-130 AD |
| Dimension | Height 64.77 cm |
| Accession | KAS 686 |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Credit | Original: British Museum (1812,0615.3) |
| Record | http://collection.smk.dk/#/detail/KAS686 |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | British Museum |
