Bust of L. Licinius Nepos, 1-25. Additional Info: An inscription identifies this stern-faced man with strong features and a receding hairline as L. Licinius Nepos. The bust was made for display in a family tomb, as the inscription asserts, L. LICINIVS NEPOS / QVI HANC CASVLAM / FECIT (This is L. Licinius Nepos who made this little house [for his ashes]). A longer funerary inscription found near Porta Pinciana, outside Rome, in 1756, also names Nepos as the builder of the tomb and indicates that he was a tradesman.

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