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functions and history are not clearly ascertained, but are amply
discussed in Tigerstrom, De Judicibus apud Romanos.5
Mongez6 has published a statue of a young man discovered
in an Augusteum, together with other statues representing mem-
bers of the family of Augustus, and which he therefore supposes,
not unreasonably, to have been intended for Marcellus. This
statue strongly resembles the youth, who is represented, in the
fine 7 Vienna Cameo called, " Tiberius descending from his triumphal
car, " as standing near Augustus in the character of Jupiter and
a figure, perhaps Octavia, in the character of Roma, and who may,
therefore, very probably be intended for Marcellus. If these con-
jectures are correct, the Museum bust cannot have been intended
for that young prince, as the features and the general expression
of the countenance are totally dissimilar. Indeed from the ar-
rangement and treatment of the hair, and from the execution of
the whole work, we should be disposed to consider it the produc-
tion of a later period, and assign it to the time of the Anto-
nines. From the tone of the inscription, as addressed to a youth
of not more than sixteen or seventeen years of age, the personage
represented was probably the son or adopted favourite of some
emperor; and we have accordingly compared it with the por-
traits of Aurelius, Verus, Commodus, and other persons of that
time, of whom coins, struck in their youthful days, have been
preserved, but we have failed to discover a resemblance suffi-
ciently strong to justify our appropriating it with confidence to
any of them.
This bust has not suffered any material fracture, but the surface
5 See also Fuss, Antiq. Roman, p. 261, and for.other inscriptions relating to them,
Reinesius, Syntagma Inscript. Lipsiee et Francof. 1682. Class, vi. 22, 50, J8, 136,
and Orell. Inscript. Latin. Select, no. 133.
6 Icon. Rom. ii. pt. ii. c. 1. p. 58. pi. 19.*
7 Eckhel, Pierres Gravees du Cabinet Imperial de Vienne, pi. i.
functions and history are not clearly ascertained, but are amply
discussed in Tigerstrom, De Judicibus apud Romanos.5
Mongez6 has published a statue of a young man discovered
in an Augusteum, together with other statues representing mem-
bers of the family of Augustus, and which he therefore supposes,
not unreasonably, to have been intended for Marcellus. This
statue strongly resembles the youth, who is represented, in the
fine 7 Vienna Cameo called, " Tiberius descending from his triumphal
car, " as standing near Augustus in the character of Jupiter and
a figure, perhaps Octavia, in the character of Roma, and who may,
therefore, very probably be intended for Marcellus. If these con-
jectures are correct, the Museum bust cannot have been intended
for that young prince, as the features and the general expression
of the countenance are totally dissimilar. Indeed from the ar-
rangement and treatment of the hair, and from the execution of
the whole work, we should be disposed to consider it the produc-
tion of a later period, and assign it to the time of the Anto-
nines. From the tone of the inscription, as addressed to a youth
of not more than sixteen or seventeen years of age, the personage
represented was probably the son or adopted favourite of some
emperor; and we have accordingly compared it with the por-
traits of Aurelius, Verus, Commodus, and other persons of that
time, of whom coins, struck in their youthful days, have been
preserved, but we have failed to discover a resemblance suffi-
ciently strong to justify our appropriating it with confidence to
any of them.
This bust has not suffered any material fracture, but the surface
5 See also Fuss, Antiq. Roman, p. 261, and for.other inscriptions relating to them,
Reinesius, Syntagma Inscript. Lipsiee et Francof. 1682. Class, vi. 22, 50, J8, 136,
and Orell. Inscript. Latin. Select, no. 133.
6 Icon. Rom. ii. pt. ii. c. 1. p. 58. pi. 19.*
7 Eckhel, Pierres Gravees du Cabinet Imperial de Vienne, pi. i.