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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3502310, member: 99456"]Thanks all for the guesses and points of view, the diverse answers give me some comfort that it isn't readily identifiable (not a good portrait of any specific emperor, or just 'Roman'). </p><p><br /></p><p>I can see the connection to young Caracalla suggested by [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] and [USER=97204]@Archeocultura[/USER] (coin below), and nose and mouth do look a lot like [USER=87404]@Justin Lee[/USER] 's Sylvester Stallone-like Valerian. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]928029[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's an interesting article describing <a href="http://www.digitalsculpture.org/papers/pollini/pollini_paper.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.digitalsculpture.org/papers/pollini/pollini_paper.html" rel="nofollow">Caligula's signature haircut</a>, which maybe says it well:</p><p><i><font size="3">Those who have studied Julio-Claudian portraiture know well that there are many problems in identifying the various members of this complex imperial family, whose portraits show a strong resemblance to one another not only physiognomically but also with respect to their iconographic hairstyles.</font></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3502310, member: 99456"]Thanks all for the guesses and points of view, the diverse answers give me some comfort that it isn't readily identifiable (not a good portrait of any specific emperor, or just 'Roman'). I can see the connection to young Caracalla suggested by [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] and [USER=97204]@Archeocultura[/USER] (coin below), and nose and mouth do look a lot like [USER=87404]@Justin Lee[/USER] 's Sylvester Stallone-like Valerian. [ATTACH=full]928029[/ATTACH] Here's an interesting article describing [URL='http://www.digitalsculpture.org/papers/pollini/pollini_paper.html']Caligula's signature haircut[/URL], which maybe says it well: [I][SIZE=3]Those who have studied Julio-Claudian portraiture know well that there are many problems in identifying the various members of this complex imperial family, whose portraits show a strong resemblance to one another not only physiognomically but also with respect to their iconographic hairstyles.[/SIZE][/I][/QUOTE]
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