The head is not well-preserved. The lower part of the head from the mouth onwards is missing, as is the lower part of the headdress at the back. The face is very worn. The nose and mouth are broken off, the eyes are also heavily damaged. The coiffure is preserved in a relatively good condition, especially on the right part of the head. The hair forms at the top of the forehead the characteristic wide loop (nodus) that characterizes the female portraits of the Late Republican and early Augustan periods (cf. the portrait of Octavia, Augustus’ sister, in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, inv. no. 547, Th. Stephanidou-Tiveriou, N. Kaltsas eds., Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο. Κατάλογος γλυπτών IV.1. Γλυπτά των ρωμαϊκών χρόνων: αυτοκρατορικά πορτρέτα, Athens, 139-141, cat. no. IV.1.37, figs. 151-154 [N. Kazakidi], Augustan period), and which is tied into a braid that continues along the crown (it would be tied into a bun on the surface of the nape – today not preserved). At the sides, the hair is combed into wavy locks indicated by shallow parallel curved incisions on the surface of the marble (their texture is rendered in the same way on the upper part of the head on either side of the braid), which would also eventually join the bun on the surface of the nape.
F.P. Johnson, Corinth IX.1. Sculpture 1896-1923, Cambridge MA 1931, 86, cat. no. 160; C. De Grazia Vanderpool, Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Corinth. The Roman Portraiture (PhD thesis Columbia University), New York 1973, 51, 72-74, cat. no. 5, pl. 7 (Augustan period); https://corinth.ascsa.net/id/corinth/object/s%20706?q=S%20706&t=&v=list&sort=&s=1
