Ancient object
Portrait of Trajan
Marble portrait
Glyptothek, Munich
Object provenance
Record incomplete- Object
- Marble portrait
- Made
- Evidence level: ProbableEarly 2nd century CE
- Found
- Not recorded in this catalogue
- Excavated
- Not recorded in this catalogue
- Now at
- Glyptothek, Munich
- Inventory
- Not recorded in this catalogue
- Identification
- Evidence level: ProbableTrajan
Identified from the official portrait types, which are well established from coinage and from dated monuments.
Not recorded here
- Findspot
- Excavation date and excavator
- Inventory number
- Restoration history — a live question at the Glyptothek, where nineteenth-century restorations by Thorvaldsen were removed from other works in the 1960s
Read across
How to read the evidence labels
- Evidence level: Documented
- Supported by a named primary text or by excavated material evidence.
- Evidence level: Probable
- Supported by strong inference that most specialists accept.
- Evidence level: Disputed
- Substantial specialist disagreement exists; competing readings are stated.
- Evidence level: Literary
- Belongs to poetic or mythological construction rather than to history.
- Evidence level: Mythological
- Belongs to shared religious or mythic tradition rather than to any single text.
- Evidence level: Unknown
- The available evidence is insufficient to decide.
These labels describe the status of the evidence, not our confidence in a conclusion. A claim marked Literary is not a claim we doubt; it is a claim about what kind of thing a poem is.