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Roman Portraiture.
552. (I. N. 710). The mother-in-law. Statue. M.
II. with plinth 1.89, without 1.80. The tip of the nose modern in
marble. The right hand missing. A few small folds broken off, but
as a whole well preserved. The head has been broken off and the
fracture at the neck has been patched in plaster, but it is almost
indisputable that the head and the body belong together. The
figure wTas acquired from Rome and reputed to have been found in
the neighbourhood of the Lateran. Acquired together with No. 155
from Mr. Maraini at Rome.
The figure itself with the beautiful cast of the folds, which
only slightly reveals the lines of the body, is one of a group
of drapery figures of a type which was much used in the time
of Trajan and of which the original must have belonged to
the fourth century B. C., probably to the Praxitelean circle.
The treatment of the folds itself would correspond very well
with the time about 100 A. D.
The form of the plinth shows that it was meant to be con-
cealed in a base, but none the less this plinth has an in-
scription in the letter-forms of the fourth century A. D. This
proves that the statue has been used again and given a new
title. The inscription is as follows:
TUN ΠΙΝΥΤΗΝ EKYPHN EYBOYAION
ICATO PAMBPOC
(The son-in-law erected this statue in honour of his wise
mother-in-law7, Eubulion).
At this re-application of an older statue the whole of the
face and the frontal hair was made over. Traces of the
earlier surface are still seen in front of both ears as a sharp
edge, on the other side of which the chiselling begins. The
features have been altered, the eyes in particular being
deeply cut, thereby acquiring the stony, gazing look,
which is typical of sculptures of the fourth century.
And with this agrees the dressing of the frontal hair, the ten
long fluted tongues below a high heavy cross plait. It is a
hair style of which the first indications are noticed in the
coin portraits of Galeria Valeria (308-11) and continue in the
Helena and Fausta coins (cf. Delbriick in Rom. Mitt. XXVIII,
1913, p. 328, fig. 7 d and pl. XVIII, 3 seqq.), though our head
shows it in its later form from 370-380 A. D. (R. Delbriick:
Spatantike Kaiserportrats p. 51 fig. 20 and pls. 23 and 99
seq.). In the Terme museum at Rome (No. 569), the Ham-
386
552. (I. N. 710). The mother-in-law. Statue. M.
II. with plinth 1.89, without 1.80. The tip of the nose modern in
marble. The right hand missing. A few small folds broken off, but
as a whole well preserved. The head has been broken off and the
fracture at the neck has been patched in plaster, but it is almost
indisputable that the head and the body belong together. The
figure wTas acquired from Rome and reputed to have been found in
the neighbourhood of the Lateran. Acquired together with No. 155
from Mr. Maraini at Rome.
The figure itself with the beautiful cast of the folds, which
only slightly reveals the lines of the body, is one of a group
of drapery figures of a type which was much used in the time
of Trajan and of which the original must have belonged to
the fourth century B. C., probably to the Praxitelean circle.
The treatment of the folds itself would correspond very well
with the time about 100 A. D.
The form of the plinth shows that it was meant to be con-
cealed in a base, but none the less this plinth has an in-
scription in the letter-forms of the fourth century A. D. This
proves that the statue has been used again and given a new
title. The inscription is as follows:
TUN ΠΙΝΥΤΗΝ EKYPHN EYBOYAION
ICATO PAMBPOC
(The son-in-law erected this statue in honour of his wise
mother-in-law7, Eubulion).
At this re-application of an older statue the whole of the
face and the frontal hair was made over. Traces of the
earlier surface are still seen in front of both ears as a sharp
edge, on the other side of which the chiselling begins. The
features have been altered, the eyes in particular being
deeply cut, thereby acquiring the stony, gazing look,
which is typical of sculptures of the fourth century.
And with this agrees the dressing of the frontal hair, the ten
long fluted tongues below a high heavy cross plait. It is a
hair style of which the first indications are noticed in the
coin portraits of Galeria Valeria (308-11) and continue in the
Helena and Fausta coins (cf. Delbriick in Rom. Mitt. XXVIII,
1913, p. 328, fig. 7 d and pl. XVIII, 3 seqq.), though our head
shows it in its later form from 370-380 A. D. (R. Delbriick:
Spatantike Kaiserportrats p. 51 fig. 20 and pls. 23 and 99
seq.). In the Terme museum at Rome (No. 569), the Ham-
386