This Carrara marble head was found at Otricoli, a small town near Rome,
in 1775, and is called the most beautiful of all the representations of
Jupiter. The high forehead is made to appear still higher by the lines
of the hair which meet in the center in a pointed arch. A deep furrow
divides the hair from the face. The curled beard seems admirably in
keeping with Olympian dignity.
The work was probably executed in Rome in about the first century.
[Illustration]
Juno.
“The Ox-eyed Queen.”
“_Where, O Juno, is the glory
Of thy regal look and tread?
Will they lay forever more, thee
On thy dim, straight, golden bed?
Will they queendom all lie hid
Meekly under either lid?_”
--E. B. BROWNING.