What is the source of this portrait of Marcion?

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What is the source of this portrait of Marcion?

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In the wiki page of Marcion, there is this image:

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What is the source?
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FYI this image is in the Italian Wikipedia but not the English Wikipedia.
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Ok, but it is found everywhere abroad about Marcion.
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Let us know if you figure it out.
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There is some irony in the fact that the original portrait was of a female:

https://www.prometeomagazine.it/wp-cont ... -11.52.bmp
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Giuseppe wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 3:59 am In the wiki page of Marcion, there is this image:

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What is the source?
Marcia. Illustration from History of Rome by Victor Duruy (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884).
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Giuseppe wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 11:26 am There is some irony in the fact that the original portrait was of a female:

https://www.prometeomagazine.it/wp-cont ... -11.52.bmp
  • Magistris, Raffaele Ambrosi De (1889). "Storia di Anagni" (in Italian). La Società Laziale.
    MARCIA (Ametista nel Gabinetto di Francia n. 3510) [Demetriade Anuntpis poi potrebbe tradursi attinente a Cerere 3 V DURUY Histoire des Romains Paris Hachette 1883 tom VI. pag. 25]
Duruy, Victor; Mahaffy, J. P. (1884–1887). History of Rome, and of the Roman people from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians and fall of the empire. Estes and Lauriat. p. 461. "v.6 pt.2."
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What is the earliest portrait of Marcion (obviously, invented) ?
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Giuseppe wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 10:32 pm What is the earliest portrait of Marcion (obviously, invented) ?
Perhaps Mark G. Bilby knows?
  • "The First Gospel, the Gospel of the Poor: A New Reconstruction of Q and Resolution of the Synoptic Problem based on Marcion's Early Luke". 2023. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3927056.
"Marcion's Gospel and Data Science - Dr. Mark G. Bilby". YouTube.
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I mean: in physical pictures.
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