Портретна пластика от Хадриановата епоха от днешните български земи. Официални портрети
Portraiture from Hadrian's Period Found in Bulgaria (117-138 AD)

Summary/Abstract: In the present article several examples of Roman official portraiture from the Hadrian`s period found in the present-day Bulgarian territory are discussed. Among them there are a portrait of Hadrian, dated at the end of his reign or at the beginning of Antonine period and three portraits of his wife Sabina /one from Durostorum and two from Philippopolis/, dated between 128 and 138 AD. Two portraits of priests are discussed also - a priestess` head from Durostorum, which has a typical Roman iconography /that of vestal virgin/ and belongs to Late Trajanic and Early Hadrianic time and a priest’s head found at Dionysopolis with classical Gråek iconography, dated at the end of Hadrian’s reign. Most of the portraits are imported from workshops at Greece and Asia Minor, but there are some of Italian origin /Hadrian’s portrait and priestess head from Durostorum/. So far there are no data for local workshops at Thrace and Moesia at Hadrianic period, but there are - for traveling sculptors, working at customer’s order/Sabina’s head with crescent-shaped diadem from Philippopolis/.

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