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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3204778, member: 56859"][USER=20677]@dlhill132[/USER], I love the hairstyle on that Julia Titi, particularly the well-preserved details of her plait and queue. The depiction of these reportedly beautiful Flavian empresses with their seemingly bewigged husbands' portraits seems baffling and hilarious to us (or at least to me). I'd love to know why they were depicted that way. Was it akin to keeping the woman's beauty private, as with some modern cultures whose adult females wear head coverings and veils? Was it considered an honor, showing the empress with physical characteristics of her powerful husband, elevating the emperor at the same time by showing he consorts with a powerful woman? Something else altogether? </p><p><br /></p><p>If someone on CT manages to build a time machine and goes back to the Flavian era, please remember to ask someone about this for me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER], I love your answer and all of those coins, especially the Tarsus Caracalla, the puppet Athena, and the Vespasian hexachalkon. The latter is especially fascinating. Tyche's portrait looks more Vespasiany than Vespasian's portrait. If you ever tire of this coin.... <i>dibs</i> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3204778, member: 56859"][USER=20677]@dlhill132[/USER], I love the hairstyle on that Julia Titi, particularly the well-preserved details of her plait and queue. The depiction of these reportedly beautiful Flavian empresses with their seemingly bewigged husbands' portraits seems baffling and hilarious to us (or at least to me). I'd love to know why they were depicted that way. Was it akin to keeping the woman's beauty private, as with some modern cultures whose adult females wear head coverings and veils? Was it considered an honor, showing the empress with physical characteristics of her powerful husband, elevating the emperor at the same time by showing he consorts with a powerful woman? Something else altogether? If someone on CT manages to build a time machine and goes back to the Flavian era, please remember to ask someone about this for me :D. [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER], I love your answer and all of those coins, especially the Tarsus Caracalla, the puppet Athena, and the Vespasian hexachalkon. The latter is especially fascinating. Tyche's portrait looks more Vespasiany than Vespasian's portrait. If you ever tire of this coin.... [I]dibs[/I] :shy:.[/QUOTE]
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