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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4612317, member: 110350&quot;]I agree that it&#039;s a great article (although some of the highly technical parts were beyond my ability to understand very well), and find it amusing that Thomas Hoving thought that the statue was incredibly ugly and referred to it as a &quot;pinhead&quot;! </p><p><br /></p><p>But I think it&#039;s a bit unfair to suggest that the article is devoid of any explanation of why it&#039;s reasonable to identify the statue as being of Trebonianus Gallus. It discusses that issue at length and compares it to other imperial statues in identifying the statue as being one of an emperor in the first place -- the monumentality, the &quot;heroic nudity,&quot; the cape, the stance, etc. In terms of identifying the statue specifically as Gallus, the basis for that appears to be primarily a comparison to his coins.&nbsp; Personally, I&#039;m not convinced that there&#039;s such a strong resemblance!&nbsp; But, given the approximate date of the statue, and accepting that it&#039;s an emperor, who else could it be? Does it resemble any other emperor&#039;s coin portraits more?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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