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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2, p. 171, No. 63. For the Acts of the Arval Brothers, cf.
C.I.L., VI., 2023-2119. It is not recorded in the extant
inscriptions that Marcus Aurelius was a member of the College,
but several emperors, from Augustus to Elagabalus, are known
to have been members, and occasionally Masters of the College.

1908. (Plate XVII.) Head of Marcus Aurelius. He has
crisply-curling hair and beard. The nose is wanting, and
the ears are injured. The pupils of the eyes are strongly
marked.

Italian marble. Height, 1 foot 3 inches. Restored : neck. Bought
of Castellani, 1879.

[For the head of Marcus Aurelius from Cyrene, see above,
No. 1464. For a so-called young Marcus Aurelius, see
No. 1784.]

1909. (Plate XVII.) So-called bust of Lucius Verus (130-
169 a.d.), as a youth. The head is that of a boy, slightly
inclined towards his right shoulder. He has thick, curling-
hair falling low on the forehead. The eyebrows are
incised, and the pupils of the eyes are marked. The head
has no particular claim to the name of Lucius Verus.
2nd cent. a.d.

Greek marble. Height, 1 foot 3£ inches. Restored: nose, lips, left
eyelid, neck and bust. Bought at the sale of the Pourtales
Collection, 1864 (Cat. Pourtales, No. 126). Grceco-Roman Guide,

I. , No. 29; Mansell, No. 1181. Bernoulli, Roem. Ikonographie,

II. , 2, p. 217.

1910. Bust of a young man (perhaps Lucius Verus). He has
thick, curling hair, which is massed over the forehead and
half conceals the ears, and a short curling beard, slightly
indicated. The bust, which includes the breast, is united
to the ancient circular plinth by a connecting piece; on
the front of the latter is a palmette roughly indicated
in relief in a small panel. The pupils of the eyes are
marked.

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