HAIR-DRESSING OF ROMAN LADIES AS ILLUSTRATED ON COINS.

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integral part of the head-dress. This appears in a coin of Aelia Eudocia (circ. 450 A.D.), wife of Theodosius II.  Illust LXXX.

A similar object occurs on the coins with the head of Pulcheria, wife of Marcianus (circ. 453 A.D.). Illust. LXXXI.  

At this point, perhaps, it will be well for me to close this paper, in which I have tried to follow chronologically the vagaries of the hair-dressing of so many generations of Roman ladies; for I am afraid that, though much more might be found of interest connected with the subject, the patience of my readers may be exhausted.

        MARIA MILLINGTON EVANS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ON PLATES,

1.  Head of Diana (Postumia). Babelon, Monnaies de la Repub. Romaine, ii, 382. 9.  77 B.C.  B. M. Silver.

2.  Head of Diana(?) (Aelia). Babelon, i. 110. 89 B.C.  B. M. Silver.

3.  Coin of Cornelia gens. Babelon, i. 421. 59. B. M. Silver.

4.        “        “         “       Babelon, ii, 323. 12, B. M. Silver.

P. 41.   Statue of Vestal, Terme Museum, Rome. Photograph.

5.  Coin of Otho. Coh. 14. Evans Coll. Gold.

6.  Coin of Cleopatra. B. M.  Issued at Ascalon.  Silver.

7.       “       “        “     B. M.  Struck at Antioch. Silver.

8.  Fulvia, as Victory. Coh. 2. Evans Coll.  Gold.

9.  Octavia.  Struck in Athens.  Babelon, i, 183, 69.  B. M.  Gold.