Excavators prop up the newly found head of the empress Faustina the Elder (Courtesy Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project)
Posted on 08/17/2008 5:18:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The head is 0.76 m in height (2.5 feet). It has large, almond-shaped eyes (only the tear ducts are rendered, not the iris or pupils as became usual during the reign of Hadrian) and fleshy thick lips. Its hair is parted in the middle of the front and taken in wavy strains below and around the ears toward the back. The rendering of the hair was done with only sparing sparing use of the drill, a feature characteristic for portraits of empresses in this, the Antonine, dynasty, in sharp contrast with the beards and curly hairs of their husbands. On top of the head is a circlet, a feature typical for most of Sabina's portraits, yet in this case the whole physiognomy of the face clearly indicates it is the empress Faustina the Elder, wife of Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius.
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Excavators prop up the newly found head of the empress Faustina the Elder (Courtesy Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project)
le kewl!
Looks like the girl had double-vision ....
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Thanks, SC. Beautiful, and in such great condition.
Do you think she knew Incontinentia Buttocks?
... and a double chin ....
Only at the local spa ... “Hey Incontinentia is that you???”
She had a face that would stop a water clock.
Not quite the face of the women I remember in all of those 1960’s Sword and Sandal movies. I’ll take the dancing girls in an old Hecules movie any day over this ahhhhhh ummmm - Are we shure its not the Roman Empresses Mother In Law?
...and leprosy! But she’s lovely, just the same!
I meant Hercules in post 12
she could make Neil Cavuto jealous.
As opposed to She of the Faustian bargain-
I’d ask what the Latin equivalent of “Cuddles” is but I don’t really think it’s necessary.
Putting lipstick on a pig just leaves you with a garish pig.
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