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Description: | BUST
This library bust is cast after the famous 'Clytie' bust in the British Museum (GR 1805. 7-3. 79 Townley Collection). Charles Townley named the bust Clytie after the nymph in Ovid's Metamorphoses, deserted in love by the sun god Helios and subsequently turned into a flower. Only later was the bust identified as a portrait, possibly of Antonia. The manner of dressing the hair shows that it comes from the Augustan period.
HC961 was still identified as Clytie when presented to the University by Knight. As a library bust, it was probably displayed in deference to Ovid. | Publisher: | University of St Andrews | Rights holder: | 47795 | Subjects: | CLYTIE PORTRAIT DRUSUS LIVIA ROMAN CALIGULA ROME OVID GERMANICUS TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS sculpture BUST ANTONIA | Temporal: | 1800/1900 | Source: | University of St Andrews | Creator: | unknown | Identifier: | HC961 | Language: | en-GB |
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