Zu Oikoumenios und den beiden ›Magistraten‹ von Aphrodisias. Die Umarbeitung des Kopfes des ›älteren Magistraten‹ und das chronologische Verhältnis der Chlamysfiguren

The main part deals with the seemingly paradoxical relationship between the two so‑called magistrates and the statue of Oikoumenios in Aphrodisias. All three are linked by the specific type of the chlamys statue ‒ with a slight typological divergence between the Oikoumenios and the two ›magistrates‹. Oikoumenios is dated by the portrait head and palaeographically by the inscription to the time around A.D. 390, the two ›magistrates‹ by their different but period‑typical portraits to the later 5th century. In regard to the sculptural execution of the statue bodies, however, the ›older magistrate‹ seems to be decidedly closer to the body of Oikoumenios than to the ›younger magistrate‹. The puzzling relationship between the three figures is clarified by the observation made on plaster casts at the Freie Universität in Berlin that the head of the ›older magistrate‹ has been reworked. Thus, the body of the statue may have been created around 400, but the current design of the head was created in the course of the 5th century. And the differences between the three bodies must be understood as a continuous stylistic change among objects produced in the same or neighbouring workshops.