Images

A gold-sheet mask representing the sun god Inti from the La Tolita part of the Inca empire. The design is typical of masks of Inti with zig-zag rays bursting from the head and ending in human faces or figures. (National Museum, Quito, Ecuador...

Julia Domna, Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, c. 193 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Colossal portrait of Faustina the Elder, Roman Empress and wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius, 138-140 CE. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

Head of empress Livia Drusilla (wife of emperor Augustus) in green basalt, c. 31 BCE. (Louvre Museum)

Marble head of Livia Drusilla, wife of emperor Augustus, from Fayum (Egypt), copy from the 4th century CE or later after an original from 27-23 BCE (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Empress Faustina the Younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius, 161 – 175 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Mummy portrait of a woman, known as "L'Européenne" painted on wooden board (encaustic wax paintings), from Antinoopolis (Antinoe), Egypt, 120-130 CE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Marble statue of Isis, found at Hadrian's Villa (117-138 CE). The goddess holds a situla and sistrum, ritual implements used in her worship. (Capitoline Museums, Rome)

Marble head of the poetess Sappho, from Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey). Roman copy of a portrait type belonging to the Hellenistic period. (Istanbul Archaeology Museum)

The Harpy tomb and the pillared sarcophagus, two monumental Lycian tombs from Xanthos (Lycia, Turkey). The Harpy tomb (left) dates to approximately 480–470 BCE whilst the pillared sarcophagus (right) dates to the 4th century BCE.