A Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman, Roman Imperial, reign of Claudius, A.D. 41-54

wearing a tunic, stola with shoulder-straps, and mantle falling from the left shoulder, her head turned to her left, her finely carved hair parted in the center, combed straight above the forehead, arranged in masses of drilled overlapping curls over the temples and ears, tied in a triple-braided plait over the nape of the neck, and falling on both sides in long corkscrew curls; on a 19th century white marble circular socle.

Scottish private collection, early 20th Century
Scottish private collection, by descent (sold at auction in Scotland in 2013)

On later turned marble socle, drapery somewhat worn with some minor loss of detail, proper right side and lower section of bust fragmentary, face repolished affecting the definition of the features, one corkscrew curl below proper right ear fragmentary, other very minor scattered chips and abrasions.
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For another private portrait with hairstyle modelled after Agrippina's, both Major and Minor, see B.M. Felletti Maj, Museo Nazionale Romano. I Ritratti, 1953, no. 107 (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/17293).