Portrait of a princess from the Julio-Claudian dynasty Julia?, unknown Roman workshop. Children's portrait, Roman sculpture, aristocracy Roman. The bust depicts a girl with a round, rather chubby face, turned slightly to the right; a rounded, elongated chin, and small, slightly pursed lips with a pronounced, wavy line of the upper lip. The almond-shaped, smooth eyes are rather shallowly set, with marked upper eyelids and barely visible eyebrows. The ears are carefully styled. The wavy hair is combed up and tied with a headband. At the back of the head, it is tied in a bun and a braid that falls down the middle of the head onto the smooth forehead. End of the 1st century BC–beginning of the 1st century AD, Roman Empire 27 BC–476. Sculpture; height 25.7 cm, width 16 cm, depth 12.5 cm, weight 11.5 kg., The image shows the rear view of a pale marble bust on a pale marble round pedestal against a solid gray background; the bust depicts the back of a head with hair gathered into a bun and sc...
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Portrait of a princess from the Julio-Claudian dynasty Julia?, unknown Roman workshop. Children's portrait, Roman sculpture, aristocracy Roman. The bust depicts a girl with a round, rather chubby face, turned slightly to the right; a rounded, elongated chin, and small, slightly pursed lips with a pronounced, wavy line of the upper lip. The almond-shaped, smooth eyes are rather shallowly set, with marked upper eyelids and barely visible eyebrows. The ears are carefully styled. The wavy hair is combed up and tied with a headband. At the back of the head, it is tied in a bun and a braid that falls down the middle of the head onto the smooth forehead. End of the 1st century BC–beginning of the 1st century AD, Roman Empire 27 BC–476. Sculpture; height 25.7 cm, width 16 cm, depth 12.5 cm, weight 11.5 kg., The image shows the rear view of a pale marble bust on a pale marble round pedestal against a solid gray background; the bust depicts the back of a head with hair gathered into a bun and sculpted waves, a few areas of light beige and yellowish discoloration on the marble, and a small area of reddish pigment on the lower back of the stone; visible colors include white, off-white, beige, yellow, reddish, and gray.

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Portrait princess Julio-Claudian dynasty Julia unknown Roman workshop Children's portrait Roman sculpture aristocracy Roman bust depicts girl round chubby face turned slightly right rounded elongated chin small slightly pursed lips pronounced wavy line upper lip almond-shaped smooth eyes shallowly set marked upper eyelids barely visible eyebrows ears carefully styled wavy hair combed up tied headband back head bun braid falls down middle smooth forehead 1st century BC– 1st century AD Roman Empire 27 BC–476 Sculpture height 25.7 cm width 16 cm depth 12.5 cm weight 11.5 kg image rear view pale marble bust pale marble round pedestal solid gray background hair gathered sculpted waves areas light beige yellowish discoloration marble small area reddish pigment lower back stone visible colors include white off-white beige yellow reddish gray.

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