
I lied. I wasn’t ready to move on. I kept poking around and my eyes caught this specimen from Andrew McCabe’s collection:

And I was surprised to see a head in the acrostolium because I thought I knew all the Roman republican types with this sort of head. All two of them. We discussed them at length earlier. So I checked Crawford. No such note. Then the ANS and BM specimens. Possible but nothing that really looked conclusively similar. The auction catalogs gave slightly better results and I turned that uncia above. The neck of the head seems really clear. I assume that even when it isn’t clear, it is meant to be there:
