Combe, Taylor [Editor]: A description of the collection of ancient Marbles in the British Museum: with engravings (Band 3) ([S.l.], 1818)

PLATE IX.

and crowned with a wreath of corn.(4) The collection of ancient
sculptures at Paris, contains busts of Antoninus Pius(5) and Lucius
Verus,(e) both of whom are represented, in like manner, as Fratres
Arvales ; and in the Vatican is a head of Augustus in the same
character, not veiled, but simply crowned with a wreath of corn.(7)

This head was formerly in the Mattei Collection,(8) and was
obtained from thence by Mr. Towneley in the year 1773-

The nose, and the whole of the bust from underneath the chin,
are modern.

Height, 2 feet If inch.

4 Morellii Numism. xii priorum Impp. Rom. tab. 1. figg. 9, 20, 34, et tab. 2. figg. 37
45, 69. It is worthy of remark, that the crown with which Julius Caesar is usually repre-
sented on his coins, has been mistaken by Eckhel and other medallists, who have described
it as being formed of laurel, whereas in fact it is composed of the spikes of wheat.

8 Mus. Nap. torn. hi. pi. 50.

6 Mus. Nap. torn. iii. pi. 57-

7 Museo Pio-Clementino, torn. vi. tav. xxxix.

8 Vetera Monumenta Matthaeiorum, vol. ii. tab. xxii. fig. I.