Female Portrait Statue (Faustina the Elder Type) in the Capitoline Museum, July 2012

Female Portrait Statue (Faustina the Elder Type)

From the Horti Maecenatiani, found in the area near the Auditorium in 1876

Parian marble

Inventory # MC 904

Portrait of an elderly woman of the Antonine Age (AD 130-150)

The portrait is coupled with an earlier statue of the type known as the "Large Herculaneum Goddess" (so-called "Grande Ercolanese").

Text from the Capitoline Museum label.