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Message:: [QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4264574, member: 99456"]McCann, A. (1968). The Portraits of Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211). Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 30, 4-222This is a thorough reference available in <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4238661" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4238661" rel="nofollow">JSTOR</a>Edited to add a summary of types:Type I Septimius as “soldier hero”<ul> <li>short, curly beard which tends to come forward beyond the line of the chin.</li> <li>short and curly hair that reveals the rounded form of the skull</li> <li>curls over the upper forehead arranged in a curved triangle, temples bare</li> <li>forehead broad and high and slightly furrowed</li> <li>nose is straight and the upper lip is covered by a bushy moustache which juts outward characteristically</li> <li>eyes directed confidently ahead</li> <li>planes of the face are smooth and broad</li> </ul>Type II Septimius as HerculesType III Portrait connected to the coins from Laodica ad MareTypes IV, V, VI, VII Antoninus Pius- Severus – 4 types in support of legitimizing his claim to power through self-adoption into the great Antonine houseType VIII Marcus Aurelius- SeverusType IX Serapis- SeverusType X Late Severus[/QUOTE]