Decimus Clodius Ceionius Septimius Albinus was born in about 150 and died by suicide or execution under the troops of Septimius Severus on Feb. 19, 197.

Many scholars, particularly those writing before the 1970s (e.g. Felleti Maj), identified this sculpture as Septimus Severus. Its similarity to early portraits of Severus are almost certainly intentional and is probably intended to convey solidarity in the same way that the tetrarch's iconography did a century later.

Despite the similarities, a few individual traits support the identification of this and a handful of other portrait heads as Albinus. Most significant of these is the degree of hairline recession around the temples, a slightly rounder nose, and the bit of hair below his lower lip.

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Clodius Albinus

Was preceded by Pertinax

Was succeeded by Septimius Severus 

Reigned roughly at the same time as
Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, &
Didius Julianus