За два римски портрета от територията на Никополис ад Иструм
Two Roman Portraits from the Territory of Nicopolis ad Istrum

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the portrait busts of a boy and a girl with features of the personifications of Sun and Moon found at the territory of Roman city of Nicopolis ad Istrum. The male bust has seven drilled holes on his head and the girl’s has only two probably done for placing a solar crown and a crescent moon. At the shoulders of the the young girl are moulded moon cusps typical for the iconography of Luna. The analysis of the iconographic and stylistic characteristics of the monumenthelps us specify its precise date and place it among other statues in Roman provincial art. The iconography, as well as the Latin inscription written on the base gives us a chance to discuss the funerary context and function of the two sculptural portraits shown in guise of Sol and Luna. The portrait is part of the group of monuments in formam deorum and it is dated in the end of 2nd c. AD.

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