3-037-172 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Portrait Bust of a Woman, A.D. 150-160. Additional Info: Although the woman shown in this Roman portrait bust cannot be identified, stylistic features reveal when and where she was made. Her hairstyle copies one worn by the Empress Faustina, the wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius, who reigned from A.D. 138 to 161. The highly polished surface of the bust also signals an Antonine date for its creation.