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)

182 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

1970. Portrait head, perhaps of a Eornan poet, wearing a
laurel wreath. The features are intact and in excellent
preservation. The hair is short and falls straight on the
brow and temples, as on busts of the time of Augustus.

Parian marble. Height, 8^ inches. Bought of Castellani, 1873.
Grceco-Roman Guide, I., No. 98; Mansell, No. 1315.

1971. Bust of an unknown Eoman personage. The head is
that of an elderly man, with prominent eyebrows. The
head is nearly bald, or close-shaven, the place of the hair
being only indicated by tool marks. 1st cent. B.C. (?).—
Bequeathed by B. Payne Knight, Esq., 1824.

Fine-grained marble. Height, 14 inches. Restorations: nose, chin,
and ears, which are unusually projecting. Mus. Marbles, XL,
pi. 31 ; Ellis, Town. Gait., II., p. 57 ; Gra>co-Roman Guide, L,
No. 70 ; Wolters, No. 1679.

1972. Portrait head of a beardless old Eoman. The brows are
contracted and wrinkled, and the left corner of the mouth
is strongly drawn down. There is no back to the head,
which is irregularly worked, and deep grooves are cut at
the place of the ears. The head may have worn a helmet.
There are traces of colour in the eyes.—Alexandria.

Parian marble. Height, S inches. Bought. 1872. Gra;co-Roman
Guide, I., No. 75.

1973. Bust of a beardless old man, with head half turned to
his right. The eye sockets are hollow. Poor work.

Bluish Greek marble. Height, 1 foot 6 inches.

1974. Beardless head of a man of advanced age, with com-
pressed mouth and spare cheeks, and short hair falling
over the forehead. The head is roughly sculptured, with
the eyes unfinished, and the back of the head merely
blocked out. Eoman work.

Bluish Greek marble. Height, 9 inches