Object Title
Portrait Head of Tiberius
Measurements
27.3 x 61 x 25.4 cm
Creation Date
ca. 14-37 CE
Credit Line
Carlos Collection of Ancient Art
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/10951/portrait-head-of-tiberius?ctx=ab24b490a77ba104a7405c7053cf3c6d3f5428ca&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Ex coll. Leo Hirschberg, Tel Aviv, Israel and Munich, Germany, until 1960. Ex Burki Collection, Zurich, Switzerland, from 1960. With Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Germany, Auktion 119, 16 October, 2002, lot. 3047. Purchased by MCCM from Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, New York.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - August 26, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 25, 2013 - Present
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 25, 2013 - Present
Publication Information
Gorny & Mosch, Kunstobjekte der Antike, Auktion 119 (October 16, 2002), 18-19, lot 3047.
MCCM Newsletter, December 2003 - February 2004.
MCCM Newsletter, September - October 2004.
Jasper Gaunt, "New Galleries of Greek & Roman Art at Emory University: The Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva 16 (January/February 2005): 13-17.
Jasper Gaunt, "Masterworks: The Classics - Monumental Art," Veranda (March-April, 2005): 122.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2006.
Joel M. LeMon, "Through the Museum with the Bible," SBL Forum, May 2006.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 54.
Susan Jaques, A Love for the Beautiful: Discovering America's Hidden Art Museums (Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 2012), 42.
Dieter Hertel, Die Bildnisse des Tiberius (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2013), 226-27, katalog 223, tafel 140.
MCCM Newsletter, December 2003 - February 2004.
MCCM Newsletter, September - October 2004.
Jasper Gaunt, "New Galleries of Greek & Roman Art at Emory University: The Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva 16 (January/February 2005): 13-17.
Jasper Gaunt, "Masterworks: The Classics - Monumental Art," Veranda (March-April, 2005): 122.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2006.
Joel M. LeMon, "Through the Museum with the Bible," SBL Forum, May 2006.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 54.
Susan Jaques, A Love for the Beautiful: Discovering America's Hidden Art Museums (Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 2012), 42.
Dieter Hertel, Die Bildnisse des Tiberius (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2013), 226-27, katalog 223, tafel 140.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Purchased by museum in 2003.