Just After the Discovery of the Meroë Head
, 1910
Photograph
Unlike the typical context of most heroic Greco-Roman sculpture, the bronze was found buried by the entrance and steps of the “victory temple” of Meroë as seen in the black and white images (Fig. 2 and Fig. 3).
Thorsten Opper, The Meroë Head of Augustus (London: The British Museum Press, 2014), 27.
