Marble portrait bust of a woman

Unknown

ca. 155–165 CE · Marble · Greek and Roman Art

This woman wears a stola and palla wrapped around her shoulders. A separate marble piece in the form of a bun was originally attached at the back of the head. The arrangement of the hair is like that worn by Faustina the Younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius, around the middle of the second century A.D.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 155–165 CE

Medium

Marble

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1913