HAIR-DRESSING OF ROMAN LADIES AS ILLUSTRATED ON COINS.

IV.

HAIR-DRESSING OF ROMAN LADIES AS
ILLUSTRATED ON COINS.

(See Plates III.-VI.)

I AM only too profoundly aware that in attempting to deal with the subject before me I am opening no very new ground. It is a subject upon which much has been already written, chiefly by foreign archaeologists. But while acknowledging my indebtedness to such persons as the authors of various articles in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des Antiquites Grecques et Romaines, in Baumeister's Denkmaler, and in Smith's Classical Dictionary, I venture to add this short paper to the literature of the subject, in the hope that Fellows of the Society may like a resume of such literature in English for easy reference. I propose to treat the subject mainly from the numismatic point of view, not from that of sculpture, which has chiefly engaged the attention of other writers. Further, I intend to illustrate this paper by plates taken directly, by photographic processes, from the coins, and not by means of woodcuts which have, hitherto, generally been used in illustration of the subject.

 So far as possible I hope to make use of the coins in my husband's cabinet. Where these fail, I am enabled, through the kindness of the officials of the Medal Room,