Portrait of a man

Excavated in 1792 by Robert Fagan between the Terme Marittime and Tor Boacciana. Bought in Rome by Antonio d'Este in 1809.
Date: Trajanic. H. 0.46, of the head 0.23.

It has been suggested that this is Lucius Licinius Sura, general of the Dacian wars, three times consul, and depicted also on Trajan's column in Rome.

Furtwängler 1910, 380, nr. 414. SO V, nr. 114. Arachne 12586. Photo: Wikimedia, Bibi Saint-Pol.