Portrait of Augustus         

Portrait of Augustus in Greek insular marble. Museo Capitolino (Gasworks) inv. 2394. Found in excavations on Via del Mare near the Theater of Marcellus in 1937. The head is almost surely recarved from a portrait of Caligula. The forehead has been cut back to allow definition of Augustus's Prima Porta-style of coiffure. Rough, broad chisel marks are visible just below the hair line directly above the right pupil and at the hair line directly above the left exocanthion (point at the outer commissure of the eye fissure).