Fülöp Gyula (szerk.): Festschrift für Jenő Fitz - Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. B. sorozat 47. (Székesfehérvár, 1996)

E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum: Womens Mantles with Decorated Borders

Fig. 5-6: Small Bust of a Woman. Cleveland, Museom of Art. Photos E. A.-R.

sehen Porträt des 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. (Antiquitas Reihe 3,18) Bonn 1977, 189 ff.

The mantle of the lady is draped as that of the women of A 1-3. The decorated border is very rigid, the scroll rendered in relatively high relief, and creates the impression of appliqué work in metal rather than embroidery. This bust is the only one of the three portraits of the same woman wearing the decorated mantle, and it may or may not be significant that the bust of the man clearly belonging to this female bust is distinguished from the others by wearing a paludamentum with a fringed edge and a round brooch.011

5. (Fig 7a, h). Bucarest, Musée National des Antiquités. Inv. no. L 633. Headless small bust of a woman. Provenance unknown. White marble. Total h. 0. 420 m.; h. of bust 0. 205 m. Piece of foot of bust broken off12.

The bust was carved with the head and the cylindrical foot with a hollow moulding from one piece of marble. It is hollowed at the back on either side of a flat central support.

(11) One of the other men also wean a fringed paludamentum but a different brooch. For the combination of a woman with a decorated mantle and a man with a fringed paludamentum see the tombstone from Savaria, below C 1.

(12) My thanks are due to Mme Maria Alexandrescu Vianu for supplying the data and the photographs reproduced here with her permission. - The bust is mentioned by M. L. Krüger in CSIR Öster-The bust resembles the Cleveland busts in several points. Its dimension are only slightly larger than those of the latter. The drapery and the form of the decorated band are the same as on the relevant Cleveland bust (above A 4), and the rendering of the scroll is almost identical. The “balteus” is pulled up right to the left shoulder and not to the upper arm as on the Cleveland bust, and the drapery folds are sharper and a little angular. The lady wears around her neck what looks like a garland tied at the back : one end appears to be visible on the left shoulder (fig. 7b). The narrow leaves of the garland are separated from one another by circular drill holes.

Since the head is missing, dating is more difficult here than with the other pieces of group A, but the analogies to the Cleveland bust suggest a similar date for both pieces.

B. Variant of A. The mantle seems to be a kind of toga comparable, e.g., to that seen on the three officials of the Liverpool ivory with a stag hunt in the arena, where there is no embroidery. The arrangement of the edges crossing one another

reich I, 1 amongst the parallels for the Carnuntum statue (below D), with reference to a colour slide in the collection of the Institut für Klassische Archäologie at the University of Vienna. Dr. H. Taeuber of the Institut für Alte Geschichte, Altertumskunde und Epigraphik at the same University kindly obtained a print from this slide, unfortunately reversed. The slide was taken around 1960 and shows plaster restorations on the foot and the index plate of the bust.

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