Portrait of Septimius Severus on an armoured statue (not belonging together)

A statue with the lorica and paludamentum. We find in this figure that truthfulness of expression, which renders the portraits of the times of the Antonines and their successors so valuable. The emperor is represented in the act of addressing his soldiers, the left arm upraised, while in his right which is bent and partly covered by the chlamys he holds the parazonum. The expression of the face is grand, the execution carefully carried out.

Inv. nr. 136. H. 2.10. Excavated in 1864.