JULIO-CLAUDIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

The lack of preserved attributes makes identifying this female difficult. Her center-parted wavy locks and idealized gaze with heavy-lidded almond-shaped eyes recall the statue of Demeter or Persephone in the Palazzo Doria–Pamphili, Rome (see no. 609 in Matz, Antike Bildwerke in Rom). However, private individuals were also portrayed veiled and with idealized features during the Julio-Claudian period, so it is equally plausible that it is a portrait (compare fig. 8a-b in Kleiner, Roman Group Portraiture: The Funerary Reliefs of the Late Republic and Early Empire).