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A ROMAN OF HADRIAN’S AGE. (Wilton House.)
(See fig. 50.)
[Head alone is ancient and placed with cut surface on a modern
alabaster bust with inscription ‘ L. Verus Caesar ’. Marble. Height
from chin to crown 0-33. Restored in marble : part of the crown,
nose, and lips. Ears damaged. Surface much retouched, even
engraving of pupils not original.]
The fall and treatment of the hair and the short full beard
permit a dating. The head is not important, but of its genuineness
there can be no manner of doubt. The bust is in the Single Cube
Room.
(Michaelis, p. 710, no. 187.)
BUST OF A ROMAN OF HADRIAN’S AGE. (Ince Blundell
Hall : Garden Temple.)
[Marble. Total height 0-77, from chin to crown 0-29. Restored
in marble : base of bust, part of left breast and shoulder, small part
by right armpit and on middle of back, centre of lower lip, nose, and
part of ears.
The shape of the bust and the fact that the pupils are not drilled,
point to Hadrian’s age, though the very disintegrating drilling of the
hair, and the curled full beard might tempt one to a rather later
dating in the age of the Antonines. It is a somewhat later stage in
the development than we find in the physiognomically related bust,
no. 225 in Petrograd (figs. 51-2), which has a more archaic shape
68
A ROMAN OF HADRIAN’S AGE. (Wilton House.)
(See fig. 50.)
[Head alone is ancient and placed with cut surface on a modern
alabaster bust with inscription ‘ L. Verus Caesar ’. Marble. Height
from chin to crown 0-33. Restored in marble : part of the crown,
nose, and lips. Ears damaged. Surface much retouched, even
engraving of pupils not original.]
The fall and treatment of the hair and the short full beard
permit a dating. The head is not important, but of its genuineness
there can be no manner of doubt. The bust is in the Single Cube
Room.
(Michaelis, p. 710, no. 187.)
BUST OF A ROMAN OF HADRIAN’S AGE. (Ince Blundell
Hall : Garden Temple.)
[Marble. Total height 0-77, from chin to crown 0-29. Restored
in marble : base of bust, part of left breast and shoulder, small part
by right armpit and on middle of back, centre of lower lip, nose, and
part of ears.
The shape of the bust and the fact that the pupils are not drilled,
point to Hadrian’s age, though the very disintegrating drilling of the
hair, and the curled full beard might tempt one to a rather later
dating in the age of the Antonines. It is a somewhat later stage in
the development than we find in the physiognomically related bust,
no. 225 in Petrograd (figs. 51-2), which has a more archaic shape