Back part of a life-sized portrait of the emperor Commodus. The type of portrait represented here is believed to have been created to celebrate the emperor's accession to the throne in AD 180.

Commodus is known to have suffered a 'damnatio memoriae', and some portraits of Commodus have their faces deliberately removed.

Fragment of a Head of Commodus | National Museums Liverpool

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Back part of a life-sized portrait of the emperor Commodus. The type of portrait represented here is believed to have been created to celebrate the emperor's accession to the throne in AD 180. Commodus is known to have suffered a 'damnatio memoriae', and some portraits of Commodus have their faces deliberately removed.

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Fragment of a Head of Commodus

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