Marble portrait bust of a woman
Unknown
ca. 100–120 CE · Marble · Greek and Roman Art
This portrait of a stern Trajanic matriarch has much in common with images of Trajan’s wife, the empress Plotina. Two ancient points of attachment in the front once held a marble addition representing the high crescent-shaped hairpiece fashionable during that period.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 100–120 CE
- Medium
- Marble
- Culture
- Roman
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1914
