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 PORTRAITS.

171

some object dedicated to one Lucius Vetulenius Carious,
a member of a college of apparitors, in three sections
(decuriae), by his friend and heir, L. Julius Theseus.
The three grooves, however, on the upper surface of the
pedestal, which correspond to the three legs beneath it,
suggest that the pedestal originally supported a tripod,
and the alleged connexion between the bust (now
mounted on a modern support) and the pedestal, which
are said to have been found together, must be regarded
as doubtful. The inscription appears to be of the second
half of the 2nd cent, a.d., while the bust seems to be some-
what earlier.

Parian marble. Height of bust, 1 foot 6 inches. Height of pedestal,
1 foot 2 inches. Restored: tip of nose. The remainder of the
surface is intact. Bought of Castellani, 1873. Grazco-Roman
Guide, I., No. 45a ; Mansell, No. 1174. For the interpretation
of the inscription, cf. Mommsen, Rom. Staatsrecht, I. (1871),
p. 268.

UNKNOWN PORTRAITS.

1930. Bust of a young child asleep, with eyes closed, and lips
slightly parted. The short hair is very lightly sketched.
A cord with pendent trinkets (c:repundia) passes over the
right shoulder and across the body. The bust is attached
to a ground like a relief. Roman work.—Towneley Coll.

Marble. Height, 10^ inches. Restored : tip of nose. Mus. Marbles,
XL, vignette; p. 103; Mansell, No. 1499.

1931. Bust of a young child, the breast naked. The head is
slightly turned to its right. The hair is thin and wiry.
The pupils of the eyes are marked. This bust is evi-
dently a portrait, probably not earlier than the second
century a.d.—Towneley Coll.