Three bronze portraits of Publius Aelius Hadrianus—better known as the Emperor Hadrian (117 – 138 CE), one of the boldest and most accomplished rulers of the Roman Empire—are brought together for a first-time display in the Israel Museum’s Archaeology Wing, marking a symbolic return of the Emperor to Jerusalem, whose last visit to the city was in 130 CE.
Of the many bronze portraits of Hadrian that are known to have existed, only these three survived.
The exhibition runs from December 2015 to the end of June 2016.