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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8123689, member: 110350&quot;]But why are you assuming that every small provincial statue intended to represent an empress, perhaps for display in a private home, would necessarily reproduce her contemporaneous hairstyle accurately? Presumably they were copied from coins or other busts -- not necessarily current ones -- and wouldn&#039;t necessarily show her as she was at the time the statue was sculpted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, even if the statute was, in fact, intended to represent Faustina II, I don&#039;t think it necessarily proves anything about whether she had strabismus. If she did have it, and that fact were widely known throughout the empire to every local sculptor, wouldn&#039;t there likely be some reference to it in the surviving literary sources?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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