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Marble Bust of Hadrian AD 117-138 Hair has ‘crown like’ appearance Fine detail in the hair Roman nose Strong gaze Looking above the observer Thick strong neck Straight mouthed Shown unclothed to suggest god-like attributes Marble bust exhibited in the British Museum. Classic Head and shoulders Roman Portrait bust. Such busts were produced in large quantities to distribute across the empire. The overall impression given by the bust is one of power, particularly when it is placed on a pedestal so that the head is higher than the viewers. The Museums description states “Statues often showed the emperor as a general or a priest. This bust shows Hadrian naked. This nakedness, originally a Greek style, showed that the emperor was heroic and almost god-like. BEARD & HENDERSON (2001)1 state “It was an emphatically Roman, rather than Greek, drive to surround available living space with armies of abbreviated figures of prestige – heads or busts; and to leave the western world with a collective acceptance of the convention of representing persons from the neck up.” 1 Beard, M. and Henderson, J. (2001) Classical Art: From Greece to Rome. Oxford, Oxford University Press