Crusty Old Guy
In the days when few people lived to old age a bust like this would have been unusual. He reminds me a bit of Sir John Gielgud, who played his share of Romans on film and on stage.
The plaque that accompanies this bronze work does not say how it was discovered, but it obviously had corroded a bit and the bottom part of it appears to have been more substantial. The crustiness does give it a fine patina of age. The Getty dates it to 90-110 CE.
Crusty Old Guy
In the days when few people lived to old age a bust like this would have been unusual. He reminds me a bit of Sir John Gielgud, who played his share of Romans on film and on stage.
The plaque that accompanies this bronze work does not say how it was discovered, but it obviously had corroded a bit and the bottom part of it appears to have been more substantial. The crustiness does give it a fine patina of age. The Getty dates it to 90-110 CE.