Ancient World

Bubon sculpture of Septimius Severus

A bronze sculpture of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, dated to 225 C.E., was part of a group of bronzes within a shrine to an imperial cult in Bubon, Turkey. Dated to 225 C.E., the statue was buried due to earthquakes and decapitated at an unknown point in time. In the 1960s it was looted by local farmers and sold abroad, with both its head and body ending up with antiquities dealer Robert Hecht; the head was later purchased at an art market and exhibited in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen from 1970, whereas its body was lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from 2011. After an investigation into its looting, the body was seized and returned to Turkey in 2023 and the Glyptotek returned the head to Turkey the next year.

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• ▸Ancient history of Afghanistan
• ▸Breidden Hill
• ▸John Myres

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