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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8210511, member: 56653&quot;]I wonder if that is not a later style of shoulder decoration of a toga picta or a tunica&nbsp; palmata, a garmet that in late roman times became associated with the trabea / toga consularis. The position is too low to be a fibula and it does not show it keeping the sides of the drapery together.</p><p><br /></p><p>See for instance on the earlier consular busts:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Constantine II with an orbiculus on the shoulder ca. 321</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440313[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>- Probus with a &#039;votive wreath&#039;(?) 278</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440314[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But if the bust has that drapery over a cuirass, then the decoration is a shoulder plate decoration, something similar to this shoulder cuirass of Constans (ca. 349). If so, there is probably no connection to the consular position but rather a reference to the general military prowess of the emperor:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440316[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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