Statue of a naked man with a head of Alexander Severus

A statue larger than life. The Emperor is represented in heroic attire, with the chlamys, one fold of which lies upon the left shoulder, while the other part covers the left arm in which he holds the parazonium. He turns his head slightly to the left and raises his right hand as if in the act of speaking. The stem of a palm-tree serves as a support to the right leg. It is a good specimen of the period to which it belongs, and is further remarkable for its rarity, since we possess very few similar statues of emperors of the third century of our era, and none perhaps equalling the present one. Its state of preservation is moreover excellent, the head which affords us a capital portrait of the son of Mammea never having been severed from the rest of the statue.

Inv. nr. 365. H. 2.25. Excavated in 1865.