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Hadrian


hadrian
Picture 505001
Marble statue of the emperor Hadrian (AD 117-138) offering a sprig of laurel to Apollo. From about AD 117-125 in the sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene in North Africa.
 
This is the only portrait to survive from antiquity of a Roman emperor in Greek Dress.
 
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