Name: Marble head from a portrait statue of a veiled priestess of the goddess Vesta. Roman, made about AD 100-20. The headdress identifies the subject as a Vestal Virgin. Above her hair are six folds of the infula, a long woollen band wrapped about the head to hang in two loops (vittae), passed behind the ears. Vestals tended the hearth in the temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum. British Museum. - SuperStock
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Marble head from a portrait statue of a veiled priestess of the goddess Vesta. Roman, made about AD 100-20. The headdress identifies the subject as a Vestal Virgin. Above her hair are six folds of the infula, a long woollen band wrapped about the head to hang in two loops (vittae), passed behind the ears. Vestals tended the hearth in the temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum. British Museum.

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