Kayseri Müzesi’nden Yayımlanmamış Bir Portre Baş
An Unpublished Portrait Head From Kayseri Museum

Summary/Abstract: The female head which was uncovered during foundation excavation of a house by a person in 1964 has not been published until today. Although it is difficult to date Kayseri piece, of which finding place and building connection are not known, based on only hair fashion and physiognomical features, it is tried to bring forward a proposal of period and identification to the female head by my evaluations and comparisons. The hairdressing fashion, plump face, the lack of depicting pupil and iris on Kayseri piece which I have written to add to the archeology literature are defining features that allow us to date the female head. “Ceres Type” hair fashion on the piece preserved in Kayseri Museum, closely resembles formal and private female portraits in Julio-Claudian Dynasty and Hadrian periods. Although only the hairdressing fashion on Kayseri head reminds the hair fashion in the periods of Julio-Claudian Dynasty, the lack of patetic expression distinguishes the female head from the stylistic features of this period. Though the hair fashion on the female head is also very similar to the hairdressing fashion on the female portraits of Hadrian period, the portrait of Kayseri does not include the expression of the physiognomic features by idealizaton seen in the portraits of Hadrian period as in the pieces of Julio-Claudian Dynasty. However, at the same time, the absence of a patetic expression on the piece, the "Ceres Type" hair fashion and the lack of depicting the pupil and iris make it possible to date the female portrait to the Early Hadrian period when the physiognomical features were not fully idealized. In my study, it has been aimed to give detailed information about the date of the piece, identification study and the reasons for the period I proposed by comparing the head of Kayseri with both periods in which the "Ceres Type" hairdressing fashion was seen.

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