Poulsen, Frederik: Greek and Roman portraits in English country houses (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923)

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A ROMAN WOMAN

to the Trajanic age is illustrated by a head from Ostia,1 and the
beautiful dignified female statue in the Museum at Syracuse, found in
the Gymnasium of Syracuse, of which we give a couple of illustrations
from photographs kindly supplied to us by the director, Pietro Orsi
(figs. 42-3). Related to the Lansdowne portrait by the shape of
the hair-dressing is a head on a modern bust in Petrograd (no. 219,
figs. 44-5) and Ny Carlsberg no. 666.2 And that this dressing of
the hair in any case continued in Africa to the beginning of Hadrian’s
reign is shown by a grave relief of stucco from a cemetery close to
La Maiga by Carthage,3 which can be dated by the tiles to about
a.d. 120. In another Roman province this Flavian-Trajanic dressing
of the hair also lingered long, namely in representations of the German
matron goddesses from the Rhineland.4
(Michaelis, p. 448, no. 50 ; A. H. Smith, Catalogue, no. 50.)

1 Notizie degli scavi, 1913, p. 179, fig. 7.
A head in Arion has big curls above and
smaller below, Esperandieu, Recueil general,
v, p. 279, no. 4112.
2 Cf. also G. Mendel, Aphrodisias,
p. 17, fig. 4; Amelung, op. cit., i, pl. 14,
no. 116. A variant is the fine head in the

Capitoline Museum, Arndt-Bruckmann,
727-8.
3 P. Delattre, Muste Lavigerie, ii, pl. IX
(p.38f.).
4 Lehner, Provinzialmuseum in Bonn, ii,
pl. XI f.