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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8233289, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;m not going to comment on who&#039;s the &quot;foxiest,&quot; but Julia Domna really didn&#039;t age well. Still, she looks quite nice on this coin I have showing her when younger, appearing kind of innocent and vulnerable:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447779[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that Orbiana was very cute:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447784[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But I think Faustina II was consistently the prettiest:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447788[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447789[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also see these and more photos at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/terracotta-portrait-bust-of-a-roman-lady-2nd-cent-ad-is-she-an-empress.390919/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/terracotta-portrait-bust-of-a-roman-lady-2nd-cent-ad-is-she-an-empress.390919/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/terracotta-portrait-bust-of-a-roman-lady-2nd-cent-ad-is-she-an-empress.390919/</a>: </p><p><br /></p><p>Very fine Roman molded pottery (terracotta) portrait bust of a lady with hair in horizontal waves and chignon, possibly Faustina II or another empress, mid- to late-2nd Century AD, acquired 1890-1920 in Sousse, Tunisia (formerly Hadrumetum, Roman Africa; location of Sousse Archaeological Museum, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousse_Archaeological_Museum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousse_Archaeological_Museum" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousse_Archaeological_Museum</a>). 16 cm. x 9.5 cm. Repaired on neck, light chipping, tip of nose missing, otherwise intact. Red/brown/ochre terracotta color with remaining traces of white indicating, according to dealer, that the surface &quot;received a second layer of fine-finishing during ancient production by applying a thin slip of white plaster/stucco which could be smoothed over the surface of the fired clay to conceal small firing cracks and so forth. The bust may then have been painted over with decoration or simply an even terracotta coloured wash, but this very rarely survives and so it&#039;s fairly impossible to ascertain&quot; intended color. <i>Purchased from Helios Gallery, Lower Kingsdown, Wiltshire, UK, Dec. 2021. Ex. Archaeology Auction 6 Mars, 2021, Lot 26, Hôtel des Ventes du Léman, Maître Albert Holtz, Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France; ex. Family Dumas Collection, Haute-Savoie, France; ex. Collection of Marius-Victor-Ernest Dumas (b. 1 Jun. 1865, Corps, Département de l&#039;Isère, France, d. after 1920), contrôleur civil à Sousse (Tunisie), ca. 1890-1920 [after Tunisia became a French protectorate in 1881], Chevalier du 12 avril 1903 (see MÉRITE AGRICOLE, Journal officiel de la république française, 22 octobre 1910, p. 8677.).</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/roman-lady-portrait-bust-11-dml-jpeg.1414687/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/roman-lady-portrait-bust-12-dml-jpeg.1414689/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/roman-lady-portrait-bust-25-dml-jpeg.1414701/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/roman-lady-portrait-bust-20-dml-jpeg.1414698/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/roman-lady-portrait-bust-15-dml-jpeg.1414690/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So who do you think was the handsomest emperor, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]? Not a lot to choose from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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