Bust of Trajan
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
The Emperor Trajan (53-117AD; r. 98-117AD), is portrayed carved in red porphyry. He is shown in bust form, with his head turned slightly to the left. He wears a mantle fastened with a brooch on his left shoulder over a cuirass with a Medusa head in the centre. Over his right shoulder is a strap terminating in a lion mask. His upper arms are covered by short fringed sleeves. The bust sits on a contemporary circular porphyry base. The sculpture is anonymous, but was probably carved in Italy in the late eighteenth century. It may have originally formed part of a set of Roman emperors.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- A.7-1941
