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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8556921, member: 26430"]Congratulations, that's a very nice portrait of Nero... with a great looking wig!</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, not everyone agrees it's a wig (does that look like Otho's natural hair?!), and I don't think the great Otho expert, Jyrki Muona, has taken a strong position either way. But Suetonius (Otho 12) made reference to the wig, and some have interpreted the unusual hairstyles on his busts as illustrating the hairpiece. (Perhaps he even had different styles of toupees.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm interested to hear what others think of the "wig hypothesis."</p><p><br /></p><p>I think yours would be a Muona "Portrait Type D."</p><p>Here are the portrait types as illustrated on page 295 of:</p><blockquote><p>Butcher, K., M. Ponting & J. Muona. 2009. "The denarii of Otho: a stylistic and compositional study." <i>La Rivista Italiana di Numismatica</i> 110: 291 - 310.</p><p><i>Avail. online from authors</i>: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259934817/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259934817/" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259934817/</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1510520[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My example, Ex-Jyrki Muona Collection, seems like it'd be "Portrait Type B." Photos below both before-and-after being sacrificed to science (Muona allowed the above-mentioned Butcher & Ponting to cut & drill & micro-photograph & subject it to electron beams for a metallurgy study):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1510521[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8556921, member: 26430"]Congratulations, that's a very nice portrait of Nero... with a great looking wig! Actually, not everyone agrees it's a wig (does that look like Otho's natural hair?!), and I don't think the great Otho expert, Jyrki Muona, has taken a strong position either way. But Suetonius (Otho 12) made reference to the wig, and some have interpreted the unusual hairstyles on his busts as illustrating the hairpiece. (Perhaps he even had different styles of toupees.) I'm interested to hear what others think of the "wig hypothesis." I think yours would be a Muona "Portrait Type D." Here are the portrait types as illustrated on page 295 of: [INDENT]Butcher, K., M. Ponting & J. Muona. 2009. "The denarii of Otho: a stylistic and compositional study." [I]La Rivista Italiana di Numismatica[/I] 110: 291 - 310. [I]Avail. online from authors[/I]: [URL]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259934817/[/URL][/INDENT] [ATTACH=full]1510520[/ATTACH] My example, Ex-Jyrki Muona Collection, seems like it'd be "Portrait Type B." Photos below both before-and-after being sacrificed to science (Muona allowed the above-mentioned Butcher & Ponting to cut & drill & micro-photograph & subject it to electron beams for a metallurgy study): [ATTACH=full]1510521[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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