Topkapi Palace and Museum
Stone carvings heads and busts...

One of many rooms full
of carvings of the heads
and busts of many Greek
gods and heroes.


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Head of the Roman Emporer
Diocletian (284 - 304 AD).
Made of marble, from the
late 3rd century AD.

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Statue of a Roman Comic
Actor, made of marble,
from the 2nd century AD.

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Head of the Roman Emporer
Lucius Verus (161 - 169 AD).
Made of marble, during the
mid Antonine Dynasty.

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More information on the
Antonine Dynasty (138 - 193 AD)
can be found here.


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Head of the Roman Emporer
Antoninus Pius (138 - 161 AD).
Made of marble, during the
Antonine Dynasty.

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Head of the Roman Emporer
Marcus Aurelius (161 - 180 AD).
Made of marble, during the
Antonine Dynasty.

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Head of the Roman Emporer
Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD).
Made of marble, during the
Julio Claudian Dynasty.

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More information on the
Julio Claudian Dynasty (27 BC - 68 AD)
can be found here.


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Bust of Agrippina the Elder.
Made of marble, and found
in Pergamum, this dates
to the first half of the
1st century AD.

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Bust of the Roman Emporer
Julius Claudius (41 - 54 AD).
Made of marble, this dates
to the Julio Claudian Dynasty.

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Statue of Roman Dionysus.
Made of marble, and made
in the 1st - 2nd century AD.

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Bust of the Roman Emporer
Tiberius (14 - 37 AD). Made
of marble and found in
Pergamum, this bust dates to
Julio Claudian Dynasty of the
1st century AD.

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