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This sensitive portrayal of a middle-aged man whose features are touched by time and experience is certainly a portrait from life. Who is this individual who seems to regard the world with a benevolent skepticism? Is he some high-ranking official, a magistrate or senator, or simply some successful private citizen of the Roman Empire? When we look upon his face, we feel able to communicate directly with a man who lived centuries before our time. - (P.3360)
Antiquities
Ancient Roman
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