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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7603208, member: 44316&quot;]I wonder if that is really Galba. It is the &quot;bust of a bald man with an aquiline nose.&quot; Very few ancient busts have their original noses--they break off easily and are usually restored in order to look the way the restorer wants them to look. If that&#039;s the case with this bust, it could easily have been some Republican bald man with the nose restored to make it look like Galba&#039;s nose (which it doesn&#039;t, anyway--it is too pointed). Also, that bust is of a lean man, like Republican busts, and Galba was not lean. </p><p><br /></p><p>It would be nice if ancient busts were found with names engraved on the back or <i>in situ</i> with the name on the pedestal--but they are not. Take a look at all those coins of Galba above (those <b>do</b> have the name on them) and ask yourself if that statue is the same man.&nbsp; I vote no.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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