Julia while she's DO
MNA (and the earlier AVGVSTAs) and
Crispina and other ladies dated by them to the 190s, especially to the first half or two thirds of that decade, all over the Empire, wore the same kind of hairdo. A masterpiece from the Tomb of the Licinii, though the lady's name is unknown, illustrates it beautifully. Quite unlike Julia's later draped hearthrug wig! I have a friend here and now whose hair permits her to do it this way (and she does).
See the attached:
Copenhagen, NCG Poulsen no. 158, cat. no. 717. Like the equally
fine man, Ro02548, she
comes from the vault of the Licinians in
Rome and ought, therefore, to belong to the same family, but her
portrait is a
head from a statue, and
his is a
bust. They are, however, equally
fine and of the same date, the last decade of the 2nd century; in her case, this is proven by the earliest coins of
Julia Domna on dated coins like the bronze
sestertius and as and one of the
denarii illustrated in this Portfolio
catalogue. See also the related heads in Thessaloniki and Verroia.