Portrait of a Man

We also know little about the identity of the man depicted in the second portrait on display: he may have been a member of the local elite around the mid-1st century A.D. Unfortunately, we have no precise information about the findspot of the portrait: we only know that it was discovered in the territory of Amiternum.

As is typical in Roman portraits, the man’s features are rendered realistically and not idealised. Although the head is damaged in several areas, especially around the hair, we can observe a rather plump face with large eyes, thick eyelids, and thin lips pressed into a serious expression.