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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8057857, member: 128351&quot;]I am surprised such extensive restorations are still made in 2021. In the XVIth to XVIIIth c. antiquities like statues, busts, coins were systematically restored. Ancient busts sold better and for higher prices if they represented famous people like emperors, so when a highly damaged bust was found, it was often restored as an imperial bust - no matter who it may have actually figured.</p><p>The most famous bust of Nero, now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, is an imposture. It is 25% Ist c. AD, 75% XVIIth c. AD. It is an ancient marble bust or statue fragment on which only the upper part of a male face was visible. They decided to insert it in a completely modern bust, in the baroque taste of the time, which was supposed to be a bust of Nero. Now, specialists consider it might have rather been a portrait of Domitian, or of some unknown man looking a little like Domitian. On this pic you can see what is ancient and what is not in this sculpture.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1396401[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The restoration of the Tetricus aureus illustrated above by [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER] is shocking for it just destroyed part of the history of this coin. The aureus has been mounted as a jewel, in Antiquity probably, in the name of what should this history be cancelled? Even worse, there was a graffito around Tetricus&#039; portrait, like a 2nd legend. Was it Latin or Greek? I can decipher something like M Δ I Y A... Erasing it is criminal. I say. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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