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68 SALA DELLA CAPPELLA 1-4—FASTI MODERNI 1. 1
This bust and the two following were formerly in the Stanza della
Lupa (Tofanelli (1818), p. 132, nos. 6, 8, 15).
2. BUST OF YOUNG ROMAN LADY (pi. 20).
H. (with pedestal) -63 m. Marble, Restored: lower part of nose.
Ears damaged.
An almost precise replica of no. 1 (q. v.). Bust of Antonine shape.
3. HEAD OF ZEUS (?) (pi. 20).
H. -42 m. Marble, Restored : lower part of nose, r. ear. The bust
is modern.
The head, which has been adjusted to a modern draped bust, is that
of a bearded man to front. His hair is arranged low on the forehead in
rows of formal curls and confined by a filet. It radiates from the centre
of the crown and falls in short ringlets on the neck. The moustache is
smooth, the beard short and curling. Some use of the drill.
The head, if antique, is a dry copy from an original of the beginning
of the ffth century B.c. But the technique and the fashion of the hair
suggest that it is modern. In Bottari's time this bust was in the Capitol
and passed as Julian the Apostate in place of the present inscribed herm
(A/kr. Cap. Ca/. 82), which then was called <rapa/ and owes its
later attribution to Fea (Ad^a^a (1819), p. 210). Bottari based
his identification on the arrangement of the hair, which he found in striking
agreement with the description of Ammianus Marcellinus (2g. 4). The
theory has no justification and was rightly rejected by Bernoulli, who did
not see the head but judged it from Bottari's engraving.
Given to the Museum by the Marchese Giovanni Pietro Lucatelli
(Forcella, i, no. 273), and placed in the Stanza della Lupa.
Bottari, ii. 83; Armellini, iii. 319; Bernoulli, AuAz. 2%77z. ii. 3, p. 249.
4. PORTRAIT OF ROMAN LADY (pi. 20).
H. .43 m. Luna marble. Restored : tip of nose, ears, curls behind them,
neck, patches on r. side of bust. Bust does not belong.
Head of a young woman turned to 1.: she has regular features, well-
cut lips, and high forehead. The hair is drawn straight back from the
temples.
Eyebrows faintly incised ; iris and pupil rendered; tear-duct worked
with the drill.
Good work of the frst quarter of the third century A.D. Provenance
unknown.
NOTE.—nos. 3 and 28 were transferred here in 1924.
FASTI MODERNI. I
1. DOUBLE HERM OF SATYR AND FAUN (pi. 2l).
FI. -321 m. Parian marble. Restored : herm, nose of Satyr, nose, lower lip,
patches on 1. cheek and chin of Faun.
Two heads back to back on a modern herm of a bearded Satyr and
a young Faun. The Satyr has pointed ears, a wrinkled forehead, and
This bust and the two following were formerly in the Stanza della
Lupa (Tofanelli (1818), p. 132, nos. 6, 8, 15).
2. BUST OF YOUNG ROMAN LADY (pi. 20).
H. (with pedestal) -63 m. Marble, Restored: lower part of nose.
Ears damaged.
An almost precise replica of no. 1 (q. v.). Bust of Antonine shape.
3. HEAD OF ZEUS (?) (pi. 20).
H. -42 m. Marble, Restored : lower part of nose, r. ear. The bust
is modern.
The head, which has been adjusted to a modern draped bust, is that
of a bearded man to front. His hair is arranged low on the forehead in
rows of formal curls and confined by a filet. It radiates from the centre
of the crown and falls in short ringlets on the neck. The moustache is
smooth, the beard short and curling. Some use of the drill.
The head, if antique, is a dry copy from an original of the beginning
of the ffth century B.c. But the technique and the fashion of the hair
suggest that it is modern. In Bottari's time this bust was in the Capitol
and passed as Julian the Apostate in place of the present inscribed herm
(A/kr. Cap. Ca/. 82), which then was called <rapa/ and owes its
later attribution to Fea (Ad^a^a (1819), p. 210). Bottari based
his identification on the arrangement of the hair, which he found in striking
agreement with the description of Ammianus Marcellinus (2g. 4). The
theory has no justification and was rightly rejected by Bernoulli, who did
not see the head but judged it from Bottari's engraving.
Given to the Museum by the Marchese Giovanni Pietro Lucatelli
(Forcella, i, no. 273), and placed in the Stanza della Lupa.
Bottari, ii. 83; Armellini, iii. 319; Bernoulli, AuAz. 2%77z. ii. 3, p. 249.
4. PORTRAIT OF ROMAN LADY (pi. 20).
H. .43 m. Luna marble. Restored : tip of nose, ears, curls behind them,
neck, patches on r. side of bust. Bust does not belong.
Head of a young woman turned to 1.: she has regular features, well-
cut lips, and high forehead. The hair is drawn straight back from the
temples.
Eyebrows faintly incised ; iris and pupil rendered; tear-duct worked
with the drill.
Good work of the frst quarter of the third century A.D. Provenance
unknown.
NOTE.—nos. 3 and 28 were transferred here in 1924.
FASTI MODERNI. I
1. DOUBLE HERM OF SATYR AND FAUN (pi. 2l).
FI. -321 m. Parian marble. Restored : herm, nose of Satyr, nose, lower lip,
patches on 1. cheek and chin of Faun.
Two heads back to back on a modern herm of a bearded Satyr and
a young Faun. The Satyr has pointed ears, a wrinkled forehead, and