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Hadrian

Official portrait of the Emperor Hadrian. Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona.

Official portrait of the Emperor Hadrian. Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona.

Portrait of the Emperor Hadrian, who visited Tarraco in the winter of 122-123 AD to preside over an extraordinary assembly of notables from Hispania. It is an official portrait made of white marble, undoubtedly the product of a local workshop. It would have been one of the many imperial sculptures and portraits that adorned the public and semi-public buildings of the ancient city of Tarraco.

It was discovered in Méndez Núñez Street in Tarragona (the lower residential area within the walls of the Roman city) in 1868.

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05. Tàrraco em va robar el cor

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