Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

H 031
Portrait of Livia from Narona. Oxford

Marble
Head
31.7 cm
United Kingdom, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1941.808
Julio-Claudian

Preservation:
The head is broken through the neck. The tip of the nose is missing. There are abrasions on the chin, eyebrows, and cheeks and root marks on the right side. The back is smoothly worked.

Bibliography:
E. Bartman, Portraits of Livia (Cambridge 1999) p.169 no.52
, "How Livia lost her head?" BluePrint, Newsletter of the University of Oxford 11 January 2001 (Oxford University 2001) 1 official notice that the head does not join a body discovered at Narona.