Woman portrait - [4th c. AD, II Q]

The hair is parted on the forehead and collected on top of the head in a braid made with three smaller braids: the so-called tiara hairstyle.

This type of hairstyle was fashionable during the reign of Costans. The period of execution of this portrait sculpture may reasonably be set around 340-350 DC

 

 

Marble portrait

Approx. 2nd quarter of the IV century AD

Vatican City State, Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Profano

 

Source: Giuliano A. “Catalogo dei Ritratti Romani del Museo Profano Lateranense”, Città del Vaticano 1957

“Museum Gregorian Profane”

 

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