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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUKE.
1940. Draped bust of a young man. The head is half turned
to bis right. He has curling hair, freely treated. The
pupils of the eyes are marked. The drapery consists of a
tunic, and a mantle thrown over the arms and shoulders.
The bust is supported by an ancient plinth on a moulded
circular base, inscribed: Decemviri stlitibus iudicandis.
Dedicated by the judicial Decemvirs. These officers were
an ancient tribunal which in the first instance dealt with
questions of personal freedom.
The person represented is unknown. The treatment
of the hair is that of the Antonine period. A conjecture
that the head may represent Commodus in youth gets
some confirmation from the place of discovery (see below).
Hiibner conjectures the head to be a young Marcus
Aurelius, about 138 a.d.—Towneley Coll.
Parian marble, corroded in parts. Height, 2 feet 8£ inches. Restored :
tip of nose. Otherwise untouched. Excavated by Gavin Hamil-
ton in 1776 at Roma Vecchia, a site five miles from Rome, now
identified with the Domus Quintiliana, a suburban villa of
Commodus. See Lansdowne House Catalogue, p. 72 ; Joum. of
Hellen. Studies, XXL, p. 316; Mus. Marbles, X., pi. 16; Ellis,
Town. Gall., II., p. 23; JIansell, No. 855; G raJco-Roman
Guide, I., No. 22; C.I.L., VI., 1579; Hiibner, Exempla
Scripturm Epigr,,~No. 281.
1941. Male portrait head, beardless. The head is slightly
raised and turned to its left. Short wavy hair. The
nose and chin are broken away, and the right eyebrow
and lips are injured. The neck is worked to fit into a
socket in a statue. There is a small piece of drapery on
the rioht shoulder. The back of the head was never
completed. 1st cent. A.D. (?).—Haliccmiassos.
Parian marble. Height, 1 foot 2 inches. Found in a well in the
Roman villa at Halicarnassos (cf. Nos. 1110-11). Newton,
Hist. Disc, II., 1, p. 307 ; Grccco-Roman Guide, II., No. 165.
1942. Unknown male portrait head, beardless, with the hair in
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTUKE.
1940. Draped bust of a young man. The head is half turned
to bis right. He has curling hair, freely treated. The
pupils of the eyes are marked. The drapery consists of a
tunic, and a mantle thrown over the arms and shoulders.
The bust is supported by an ancient plinth on a moulded
circular base, inscribed: Decemviri stlitibus iudicandis.
Dedicated by the judicial Decemvirs. These officers were
an ancient tribunal which in the first instance dealt with
questions of personal freedom.
The person represented is unknown. The treatment
of the hair is that of the Antonine period. A conjecture
that the head may represent Commodus in youth gets
some confirmation from the place of discovery (see below).
Hiibner conjectures the head to be a young Marcus
Aurelius, about 138 a.d.—Towneley Coll.
Parian marble, corroded in parts. Height, 2 feet 8£ inches. Restored :
tip of nose. Otherwise untouched. Excavated by Gavin Hamil-
ton in 1776 at Roma Vecchia, a site five miles from Rome, now
identified with the Domus Quintiliana, a suburban villa of
Commodus. See Lansdowne House Catalogue, p. 72 ; Joum. of
Hellen. Studies, XXL, p. 316; Mus. Marbles, X., pi. 16; Ellis,
Town. Gall., II., p. 23; JIansell, No. 855; G raJco-Roman
Guide, I., No. 22; C.I.L., VI., 1579; Hiibner, Exempla
Scripturm Epigr,,~No. 281.
1941. Male portrait head, beardless. The head is slightly
raised and turned to its left. Short wavy hair. The
nose and chin are broken away, and the right eyebrow
and lips are injured. The neck is worked to fit into a
socket in a statue. There is a small piece of drapery on
the rioht shoulder. The back of the head was never
completed. 1st cent. A.D. (?).—Haliccmiassos.
Parian marble. Height, 1 foot 2 inches. Found in a well in the
Roman villa at Halicarnassos (cf. Nos. 1110-11). Newton,
Hist. Disc, II., 1, p. 307 ; Grccco-Roman Guide, II., No. 165.
1942. Unknown male portrait head, beardless, with the hair in