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Roman Portraiture.
family likeness too, particularly of the mouth and its express-
ion. To this group also belongs a female bust in the Capi-
toline museum, the bust form of which is doubtless Flavian
and the expression of which resembles our head (Stuart
Jones: Museo Capit. pl. 40 No. 95). The only differing feature
of our head is the taller hair turban on the back of the head,
which may recall the female coiffures of Trajanic time, when,
however, it came nearer the forehead (cf. No. 675).
Bitledtavler pt. LV. Bernhard Schweitzer: Antikcn in ostpreuss. Privat-
besitz p. 186. West II p. 52 No. 3 and p. 97 No. 1.
668. (I. N. 772). Nerva. Head. M.
II. 0.35. Tlie nose and the middle part ol the upper lip modern in
plaster. Small part of the left ear broken off. The surface weathered
and with vegetable fibre. Shaped for insertion into a statue. Acquired
1889 from Rome.
An elderly, gaunt, probably toothless Roman with small
half-closed eyes, sharp cheek bones and large Adam’s apple.
The frontal locks recall the portraits of Augustan time, but
the drilling is deeper and the style of the head is Flavian.
Like the statue No. 542 the identification as the emperor
Nerva seems to be reliable (cf. especially the head in the
Terme museum, Not. Scavi. 1925 pl. 15. On Nerva portraits
L. Curtius, Rom. Mitt. 47, 1932, p. 243 note 2, West II p. 57
seq. and Filippo Magi: I Rilievi Flavi del Palazzo della Can-
cellaria pp. 69 and 132 seq.).
Billedtavler pl. LV. West II p. 58 No. 5. Gotze, Mitteilungen I, 1948,
p. 151 seq.
668 a. (I. N. 2804). .4 Roman of the lime of Domitian. Bust. M.
H. 0.49. The nose, small part of the left cheek and ears and the
entire right shoulder modern in marble. Acquired 1930 from Lans-
downe House in London.
The bust form and the small acanthus leaf between the
base and the chest are typical of busts of the time of Do-
mitian (cf. No. 664). It is a magnificent bust, the face with
the deep lines on the cheeks is marked by energy and
firmness of character, and the lines of the brows above the
small eyes add an accent of bitterness and disappointment.
2. Tillaeg til Billedtavler pl. X. A. Michaelis:-Ancient Marbles p. 449 No. 54.
Fr. Poulsen: Greek and Roman Portraits p. 66 No. 47. West II p. 42 No. 14.
On the bust form with acanthus see A. Hekler: Sammlung antiker Skulp-
466
family likeness too, particularly of the mouth and its express-
ion. To this group also belongs a female bust in the Capi-
toline museum, the bust form of which is doubtless Flavian
and the expression of which resembles our head (Stuart
Jones: Museo Capit. pl. 40 No. 95). The only differing feature
of our head is the taller hair turban on the back of the head,
which may recall the female coiffures of Trajanic time, when,
however, it came nearer the forehead (cf. No. 675).
Bitledtavler pt. LV. Bernhard Schweitzer: Antikcn in ostpreuss. Privat-
besitz p. 186. West II p. 52 No. 3 and p. 97 No. 1.
668. (I. N. 772). Nerva. Head. M.
II. 0.35. Tlie nose and the middle part ol the upper lip modern in
plaster. Small part of the left ear broken off. The surface weathered
and with vegetable fibre. Shaped for insertion into a statue. Acquired
1889 from Rome.
An elderly, gaunt, probably toothless Roman with small
half-closed eyes, sharp cheek bones and large Adam’s apple.
The frontal locks recall the portraits of Augustan time, but
the drilling is deeper and the style of the head is Flavian.
Like the statue No. 542 the identification as the emperor
Nerva seems to be reliable (cf. especially the head in the
Terme museum, Not. Scavi. 1925 pl. 15. On Nerva portraits
L. Curtius, Rom. Mitt. 47, 1932, p. 243 note 2, West II p. 57
seq. and Filippo Magi: I Rilievi Flavi del Palazzo della Can-
cellaria pp. 69 and 132 seq.).
Billedtavler pl. LV. West II p. 58 No. 5. Gotze, Mitteilungen I, 1948,
p. 151 seq.
668 a. (I. N. 2804). .4 Roman of the lime of Domitian. Bust. M.
H. 0.49. The nose, small part of the left cheek and ears and the
entire right shoulder modern in marble. Acquired 1930 from Lans-
downe House in London.
The bust form and the small acanthus leaf between the
base and the chest are typical of busts of the time of Do-
mitian (cf. No. 664). It is a magnificent bust, the face with
the deep lines on the cheeks is marked by energy and
firmness of character, and the lines of the brows above the
small eyes add an accent of bitterness and disappointment.
2. Tillaeg til Billedtavler pl. X. A. Michaelis:-Ancient Marbles p. 449 No. 54.
Fr. Poulsen: Greek and Roman Portraits p. 66 No. 47. West II p. 42 No. 14.
On the bust form with acanthus see A. Hekler: Sammlung antiker Skulp-
466