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A Statue in the Palazzo Barberini

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Extract

The unique statue of a togatus holding in either hand the portrait of a deceased ancestor (plates XXVIII-XXX) is fairly well known. It is mentioned by Zoega and by Matz-Duhn; it is discussed by Benndorf-Schöne, and has been recently for the first time adequately published by Dr. Arndt.

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Copyright © Katharine A. Esdaile 1911. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

page 206 note 1 Bassirelievi, i, 123, n. 8.

page 206 note 2 Ant. Bild. in Rom, no. 1277.

page 206 note 3 Lat. Mus. p. 209.

page 206 note 4 Gr. u. röm. Porträts, nos. 801-804.

page 206 note 5 Arndt, op. cit. text to 801-804.

page 207 note 1 Catalogue of the Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum (quoted as B.M.C.R.R.), pl. liv, 16.

page 209 note 1 C.I.L. vi, pt. iii, 20383, where the references to Guattani and Zoega are not given; the latter a later publication than Marini's manuscript catalogue cited in C.I.L.

page 209 note 2 B.M. Cat. iii, 2335.

page 209 note 3 Helbig, ii, 2, 804; Zoega, , Bassirelievi, i, pl. 23Google Scholar.

page 209 note 4 Bernoulli, ii, 1, pl. xxvii, 2.

page 209 note 5 It is true that statues were erected to generals who had not covered themselves with glory, e.g. Q. Lutatius Catulus, Marius' unsuccessful colleague in the Cimbrian war, but these may certainly be left out of count, as their immediate descendants (and the character of the togatus makes it clear that the principal figure is an immediate descendant) would not make themselves absurd by representing themselves with the portraits of these inglorious ancestors.

page 210 note 1 At one time Marius let his hair and beard grow long (Plut. Vit. M. 4, etc.) and it is to this that the birtus atque borridus of Velleius Paterculus probably refers (Cf. also Appian, B.C. i, 67Google Scholar), since the very fact that so much stress is laid on his so doing proves, as Bernoulli (i, 77) points out, that, like his contemporaries, he usually shaved.

page 210 note 2 Plin. H.N. xxxiii, 132Google Scholar; xxxiv, 27.

page 210 note 3 The plural is expressly used by Plutarch. Velleius Paterculus (43, 2) says imaginem, which may refer to the statue on the Capitol.

page 210 note 4 Caesar, as said above, also restored the statues of Pompey and Sulla, but the imago does not represent either, as we know from the coins, and further, neither had descendants famous enough for the central figure.