拍品专文
During the Julio-Claudian period, prviate citizens often imitated to varying degrees the hairstyles and even borrowed the facial features of prominent women of the imperial household for their own portraits. This female portrait represents a private individual, modeling a hairstyle first popularised by Agrippina Minor. The sitter's centrally parted coiffure with a dense mass of ringlets and strands ending in curls framing the face, continued in popularity into the Neronian-Flavian period in private portraiture, as for example in a portrait of Staia Quinta, a wealthy liberta (ex-slave), in the Ny Carlsberg Glypotek, Copenhagen (F. Johansen, Catalogue Roman Portraits I, 1994, no. 86).