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Lyon: Portrait sculpture of Timestheus
Sculpture of Timestheus (Musée de la civilisation Gallo-Romain).
This
finely carved portrait bust shows Timestheus, an imperial administrator
in Lugdunum (Roman Lyon) during the early 3rd century AD. Timestheus
was also the father-in-law of the Roman emperor Gordian III (AD
238-244).
The sculpture, displayed in Gallery VI of the Musée de
la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine in Lyon, expresses a somber, highly
developed realism which became typical of the best examples of ancient
Roman portraiture.
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