The Julian Basilica closes the east end of the Roman forum. It was a two story structure with cryptoporticus below and a peristyle hall above. The basilica was built in the early years of the 1st century ...
Upper part of head wearing a pilos. Smaller than life size and thus smaller than similar one in the Vatican (Vat. Cat. I, no. 420). Hair in thin locks curling horizontally across brow. Perhaps Odysseus? ... Copy of fifth century original?
