Excerpt from Guide to the Public Collections of Classical Antiquities in Rome, Vol. 2: The Villas, the Museo Boncompagni, the Palazzo Spada, the Antiquities of the Vatican Library, the Museo Delle Terme
The body belongs to the type usual in seated figures of Zeus. The laurel-crowned head (nose restored) is an cient but can hardly have belonged to the same figure, as the whole of the neck, connecting head and trunk, is of modern workmanship. It betrays a superficial resem blance to the head of Augustus.
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