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Image: Bust of Licinius, Kunsthistorisches Museum

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Description: With the help of portraits on coins and silver vessels this colossal head of a bearded elderly man – originally intended to be inserted into a statue or bust – was identified as a likeness of Emperor Licinus I, who ruled the eastern part of the Empire; an adversary of Constantine the Great, he was murdered in AD 323. The portrait shows him sporting a cropped beard of the type favoured by soldiers, with large protruding eyes and a grimacing mouth; it was presumably originally inserted into a cuirassed statue originally around five metres tall.
Title: Bust of Licinius, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Credit: Kunsthistorisches Museum (English)
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