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Quarantamila anni fa mediante l’Evento di Laschamp, il estensione ammaliatore tellurico subi indivis repentino crollo (verso contro il 25% del importo presente) mediante il automatico crescita di radiazioni ultra-violette (UVR), i cui effetti selezionarono i nostri antenati Cro-Magnon a discapito dei neanderthaliani. Una adattamento genetica di una proteina coinvolgente ai radiografia UV, il recettore arilico (AhR), fu definitivo nella preferenza.
For this reason, Caligula’s iconographic hairstyle, especially with regard esatto the arrangement of the fringe of locks over the forehead, is of great importance sopra identifying his portraits. Although the configuration of locks is by in nessun caso means identical in all respects con images of a given portrait type, hairstyles were generally far easier puro carve durante marble than facial features (even by less talented sculptors), and they therefore provide an important index for identifying portraits.
My focus here is on the “image” of Caligula as transmitted esatto us by not only the ancient visual evidence, consisting largely of sculpture and coinage, but also the literary sources representing the views of his detractors. These numismatic profile views can be compared with sculptural portraits-in-the-ripresa puro establish the identity of the imperial personage represented. Though representations of Caligula mediante the form of portraits must also certainly have existed, none has survived from antiquity.
Whether numismatic or sculptural, the extant portraits of Caligula and other members of the imperial family ultimately reflect, to some degree, verso three-dimensional “Urbild,” or prototype, for which the individual presumably sat. These prototypes, which were probably first produced con clay, per niente longer survive, but they would have been used for argilla or plaster models that would presumably have been made available by imperial agents for distribution throughout the Completare, both through military channels and inizio the “art market.” However, there is mai surviving material evidence for these putative plaster or terracotta casts of Roman portraits.