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58 A MIDDLE-AGED ROMAN
which is not so dry as that which corresponds to it in Republican
portraits,1 but agrees with that of the early empire.2 The bust,
rightly described by Michaelis as ‘ a good portrait is in the Double
Cube Room.
(Michaelis, p. 711, no. 196.)
36
ROMAN LADY OF THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS. (Wilton House.)
[Head placed with cut edge on modern neck and porphyry bust
inscribed ‘ Drusilla ’. Marble. Height of head 0-23. Restored in
marble, point of the nose ; in plaster, parts of left brow and of front
hair on same side, as well as small parts of cheeks.]
The hair parted in the centre and stretched back to a little
pigtail is as characteristic as the more common ‘ nodus ’ dressing of
the hair before the age of Augustus.3 The bust is in the Double
Cube Room and is one of the few good portraits in Wilton House.
It is a young face but with a very vexed, almost sulky expression.
(Michaelis, p. 711, no. 189.
?7
HEAD OF THE YOUNG TIBERIUS. (Margam Park.)
[Head joined to statue of man sacrificing, which, on account of
light-conditions, it was impossible to photograph completely. Neck
and whole back of head with veil modern. In this frame the head,
or if the expression is preferred, the mask, is inserted, probably
1 Arndt-Bruckmann, 804 and 817-18
(= Stuart Jones, Museo Capitolino, pl. 46,
no. 1, p. 186).
2 Stuart Jones, ib., pl. 74, no. 42 (p. 301),
and pl. 52, no. 81 (p. 213), wrongly dated
in the Flavian age.
3 Cf. Amelung, Vat. Katal., ii, pl. 68,
no. 294 (p. 493); Arndt-Bruckmann, 171-
2, 210, 717-8 ; Steininger, Weibliche Haar-
trachten, pp. 19 and 33. It is the hair
dressing which Ovid (Ars amandi, iii. 137)
thus describes : * longa probat facies capitis
discrimina puri.’
which is not so dry as that which corresponds to it in Republican
portraits,1 but agrees with that of the early empire.2 The bust,
rightly described by Michaelis as ‘ a good portrait is in the Double
Cube Room.
(Michaelis, p. 711, no. 196.)
36
ROMAN LADY OF THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS. (Wilton House.)
[Head placed with cut edge on modern neck and porphyry bust
inscribed ‘ Drusilla ’. Marble. Height of head 0-23. Restored in
marble, point of the nose ; in plaster, parts of left brow and of front
hair on same side, as well as small parts of cheeks.]
The hair parted in the centre and stretched back to a little
pigtail is as characteristic as the more common ‘ nodus ’ dressing of
the hair before the age of Augustus.3 The bust is in the Double
Cube Room and is one of the few good portraits in Wilton House.
It is a young face but with a very vexed, almost sulky expression.
(Michaelis, p. 711, no. 189.
?7
HEAD OF THE YOUNG TIBERIUS. (Margam Park.)
[Head joined to statue of man sacrificing, which, on account of
light-conditions, it was impossible to photograph completely. Neck
and whole back of head with veil modern. In this frame the head,
or if the expression is preferred, the mask, is inserted, probably
1 Arndt-Bruckmann, 804 and 817-18
(= Stuart Jones, Museo Capitolino, pl. 46,
no. 1, p. 186).
2 Stuart Jones, ib., pl. 74, no. 42 (p. 301),
and pl. 52, no. 81 (p. 213), wrongly dated
in the Flavian age.
3 Cf. Amelung, Vat. Katal., ii, pl. 68,
no. 294 (p. 493); Arndt-Bruckmann, 171-
2, 210, 717-8 ; Steininger, Weibliche Haar-
trachten, pp. 19 and 33. It is the hair
dressing which Ovid (Ars amandi, iii. 137)
thus describes : * longa probat facies capitis
discrimina puri.’