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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8124178, member: 110350&quot;][USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER], of course that possibility has occurred to me. I suppose it could just be some patrician lady living in Hadrumetum, who was modeling her hair after the way empresses wore it at the time, chignon and all. On the other hand, I understand that any statue of an empress on public display would almost certainly be made of marble or bronze, but why is it out of the question that a private citizen could have owned a small terracotta sculpture of an empress for display in their home? Not everyone could afford marble or bronze, and I would think that there were less expensive versions manufactured for people who weren&#039;t quite so wealthy. I have no authorities to cite either way; I haven&#039;t researched the question. But it makes intuitive sense to me that molded pottery busts of the royal family might have been mass-produced for the consumer market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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