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Michael Padgett, ed., <em>Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(Princeton, NJ:&nbsp;Art Museum, Princeton University, &nbsp;2001).","citation":"J. Michael Padgett, ed., <em>Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(Princeton, NJ:&nbsp;Art Museum, Princeton University, &nbsp;2001)., cat. no. 2","date":2001,"id":2140,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/47868668"},{"boilertext":"C.C. Vermeule, \"Roman Imperial persons in North America\", <EM>Celator</EM> 17, no. 12 (Dec., 2003).","citation":"C.C. Vermeule, \"Roman Imperial persons in North America\", <EM>Celator</EM> 17, no. 12 (Dec., 2003)., p. 29; p. 28 (illus.)","date":2003,"id":7017,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/38069754"},{"boilertext":"Jerome M. Eisenberg, <EM>Art of the Ancient world: Volume XII, special edition with mythological guides, ancient chronologies, and themes for collecting</EM>, (New York: Royal-Athena Galleries, 2000).","citation":"Jerome M. Eisenberg, <EM>Art of the Ancient world: Volume XII, special edition with mythological guides, ancient chronologies, and themes for collecting</EM>, (New York: Royal-Athena Galleries, 2000)., cat. no. 26; p. 15 (illus.)","date":2000,"id":2149,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/46756304"},{"boilertext":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection</i> (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)","citation":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection</i> (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 90 (illus.)","date":2007,"id":474,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/191864564"},{"boilertext":"C.C. Vermeule, \"Faces of empire (Julius Caesar to Justinian)\", <em>Celator</em>&nbsp;19, no. 11 (Nov., 2005).","citation":"C.C. Vermeule, \"Faces of empire (Julius Caesar to Justinian)\", <em>Celator</em>&nbsp;19, no. 11 (Nov., 2005)., p. 25; fig. 2","date":2005,"id":2246,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/38069754"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":12861,"period":"Roman Imperial Period","alphasort":"Roman Imperial Period","begindate":-30,"enddate":467,"displayperiod":"Roman Imperial Period, Augustan Period, 27 BCE–14 CE, ca. 30 BCE–476 CE","displaydate":"ca. 30 BCE–476 CE"}],"department":"Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199316,"term":"Ancient Mediterranean Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"1000 B.C.-A.D 1","dateend":-1,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Portrait of the Emperor Augustus","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"2000-308","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Purchased by the Museum from the Royal Athena Galleries in 2000.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"More portraits of Gaius Octavius, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, survive than of any other Roman. This bust would have been inserted into a full-length statue by the tenon that emerges at the base of the neck. While he initially ruled as Rome’s princeps, or “first citizen,” Octavian was proclaimed “Augustus,” or “august,” in 29 BCE, two years after the Battle of Actium, a victory that assured his political dominance. This portrait, though likely made many years later, refers to a model created soon after that victory and was designed to emphasize Augustus’s youth and military prowess. The marble was recently analyzed and determined to have originated from the quarries at Luna (Carrara, Italy), a frequent source for the material used for imperial portraits. 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