Roman Marble Portrait of Julia TitiAn ancient Roman over life-size marble portrait head of an aristocratic woman, very likely Julia Titi, the daughter of Emperor Titus. Her hair is worn in a very elaborate coiffure, popular among the women of Flavian Rome, with curled ringlets in the front and a series of braids pulled into a bun on the back. Flavian period, Ca. 69 - 91AD. Flavia Julia Titi, the daughter of the Emperor Titus is known to history as a wild young woman. After the deaths of her father and her husband, the Roman consul Titus Flavius Sabinus, she allegedly became the mistress of her uncle, Domitian, the last Emperor of the Flavian dynasty. According to Suetonius, on her death her ashes were secretly mixed with that of Domitian's in the Temple of the Flavians. Confer for similar Julia Titi portraits: F. Johansen, Catalogue of Roman Portraits, II, Ny Carlsburg Glyptotek, (Copenhagen, 1995), pp. 42-43, no. 10; J. Frel, Roman portraits in the Getty Museum, (1981), pp. 52-53, no. 36. Formerly in a German private collection. Inv#: 1875 $25,000 Guaranteed Authentic |
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