Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 3) (London, 1904)

ROMAN IMPERIAL PORTRAITS.

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short wavy hair, compressed lips, and small rounded chin.
There is little ground for this attribution.

Marble. Height, 10J inches. Bought of Castellan', 1879. Mansell,
No. 1316.

1890. (Plate XX.) Head of Vespasian (9-79 a.d.). The head,
which is larger than life size, is veiy coarsely executed.
The nose and right ear are broken away, and the surface
is mutilated.—Carthage.

Fine-grained marble. Height, 1 foot 4 inches. Found in the excava-
tions of Sir Thos. Reade, 1835-6. Bought, 1850. Grceco-Roman
Guide, 11., No. 157 ; Bernoulli, Boem. Ihonographie, II., 2, p. 25,
No. 30.

1891. (Plate XVII.) Titus (41-81 a.d.). Head turned slightly
to its right with short curling hair, rounded forehead,
and very projecting ears.—Found at Porta Portese, Pome.
Presented by Lord Savile, G.C.B., 1892.

Italian marble. Height, 1 foot 4J inches. Restored : terminal bust.

1892. (Plate XXII.) Bust of Domitia (?) (circa 56-136 a.d.).
The hair is loosely massed round the face, and brought to
the back in numerous plaits, where it is gathered in a
kind of coil. On the coins of Domitia, the plaits fall in
a club down the neck. The present headdress is sub-
stantially the same, except that the club is looped up at
the back. The profile, however, has little resemblance.—
Pourtalcs Coll., 1865.

Parian marble. Height, 1 foot 4§ inches. Restored: tip of nose.
Otherwise in fine condition, the draped bust being original.
Cat. Pourtales, No. 127; Grwco-Roman Guide, I., No. 14
Manseil, No. 1176; Bernoulli (Roem. Ikonograplve, II., 2, p. 66)
denies that this is either Domitia or Julia, daughter of Titus—
an alternative suggestion of Sir C. T. Newton.

1893. Bust of Trajan (53-117 a.d.). The bust is nude, to
below the breast, and is supported by an antique moulded