Editing Vibia Sabina (section)

==The Thasos Find ==
[[File:4547_-_Istanbul_-_Museo_archeol._-_Donna_-_Copia_rom._da_orig._sec._IV_a.C._-_da_Thasos_-_Foto_G._Dall'Orto_28-5-2006.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Istanbul Archaeological Museum, the Bents’ statue of Vibia Sabina from Thasos.]]
The antiquaries [[James Theodore Bent|Theodore]] and [[Mabel Bent]], while excavating within the forum area of the ancient capital of the island of [[Thasos]] in March 1887, uncovered an almost complete statue of Vibia Sabina (2nd cent. AD; c. 1.8m high) that decorated the monument to [[Caracalla]].<ref>J. Theodore Bent, ‘Discoveries in Thasos’, ''Athenæum'', Issue 3113 (June 1887), p.839; Sheila Dillon, ''The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World'', 2010, Cambridge University Press, pp.147-9, 278; ''The Travel Chronicles of Mrs. J. Theodore Bent'', Vol. 1, 2006, Oxford, pp.200-2.</ref>  The Bents were hoping to return with the statue to London, but it was confiscated by the Istanbul authorities, specifically [[Osman Hamdi Bey]]. It is now on display in the Archaeological Museum there.<ref>See Gustave Mendel, ''Catalogue des Sculptures Grecques, Romaines et Byzantines I'', 1912, Constantinople, pp.347-8, no.137; museum inv. no. 375).</ref>