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Green basanite bust of Germanicus Caesar
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More model informationHappy Easter! Here’s a bit of Christian history…
This bust was part of the British Museum’s “Egypt: faith after the pharaohs” exhibition and is now back on general display.
Egypt, about AD 14–20.
“This statue of Germanicus, great-nephew of the emperor Augustus, was probably made around AD 19, shortly after a visit to Egypt. Years later someone inscribed a cross on his forehead and it was hacked across the nose, ear and neck. We don’t know why the cross was added – perhaps to neutralise spirits thought to dwell in images, to ‘Christianise’ Germanicus, or to mark him as a ‘slave of God’ – as some Christians marked themselves.”
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Mar 27th 2016
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