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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 5277130, member: 44316"]Interesting. I stand corrected. Not all fibulas are fastened over the right shoulder. Some are over the left shoulder. I just looked at several wikipedia articles with images of busts of emperors and found most, but not all, have the fibula on the right shoulder. For example, here is the wikipedia image of Lucius Verus (the emperor shown above): [ATTACH=full]1220914[/ATTACH] Searching on the emperors names at wikipedia, most have busts or full statues that have a fastener. (Some just have heads, so are of no help.) Those on the right:AugustusVespasianTitusDomitian has it on the leftno Trajan with fibulaHadrianAntoninus PiusMarcusCommodusSeptimius Severus Severus AlexanderElagabalus I looked under "fibula" and did not find a statement that they were always worn over the right shoulder. I looked through many "Getty images" of Romans.  It seems that by far most are over the right shoulder, but not all. I looked at my own images of statues in Rome and found some with fastening on the left. I mention my own because I am sure they were not digitally altered. It is easy to flip images horizonally. Without words in the background it can be impossible to tell if an image has been flipped for artistic reasons. For example, here is the original Lucius Verus image, flipped horizontally. [ATTACH=full]1220917[/ATTACH] If you had not seen the original, the orientation would seem to be the other way.[/QUOTE]