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<p>[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 3585410, member: 91820"]I did a quick search on Google and found this on the "Caracalla Master"</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.rome101.com/Portraiture/Caracalla/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rome101.com/Portraiture/Caracalla/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rome101.com/Portraiture/Caracalla/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This implies that the term also is applicable to someone doing statuary of Caracalla. I have never heard of celators also doing sculpting but perhaps the same artist could do both.</p><p><br /></p><p>That aside there is a distinctive style in very late sestertii of Caracalla that I have always associated with a master celator. These coins ARE distinctive, are beautiful, and do not appear to have continued to Macrinus or Elagabalus, although I have not made a thorough study or any study at all - I will try to find some examples later. I think the ones I would consider are only TRP XIX and XX - perhaps XVIII, but not before then[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 3585410, member: 91820"]I did a quick search on Google and found this on the "Caracalla Master" [URL]https://www.rome101.com/Portraiture/Caracalla/[/URL] This implies that the term also is applicable to someone doing statuary of Caracalla. I have never heard of celators also doing sculpting but perhaps the same artist could do both. That aside there is a distinctive style in very late sestertii of Caracalla that I have always associated with a master celator. These coins ARE distinctive, are beautiful, and do not appear to have continued to Macrinus or Elagabalus, although I have not made a thorough study or any study at all - I will try to find some examples later. I think the ones I would consider are only TRP XIX and XX - perhaps XVIII, but not before then[/QUOTE]
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