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The bust is evidently not ancient. The inscription has the Italian (rather than Latin) spelling of his name. I can't find much about it, though.

I'm coming up with a date range of 1859-1861 for the statue. Edit to add; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincian_Hill (Quote)

http://roma.andreapollett.com/S1/roma-c23.htm This webpage suggests that there were 52 such busts. An interesting read!

Here's another cameo in plaster that is supposed to be Lucretius. c. 1820, Pietro Paoletti As for Munro's ring, I have now traced its history for a period of more than 50 years. I will present my findings tomorrow evening

The one I showed above was an Italian souvenir made for travelers on a Grand Tour. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour The Munro ring was thought by three experts in the 19th century to be a genuine ring from the late Roman republic. I don't know anything about the busts.

There was another Lucretius who was a "moneyer", a private individual permitted to mint coins. His name was Gneius Lucretius Trio, and its all over his coins. But in his case it was "CN LVCR". I think I'll post my slides now, but I can still go through them later. The critical source was one I stumbled on by complete accident or really good googling, I'll let others be the judge You can download the file from Swisstransfer here: Edit to add: Cassius has informed of errors, see the new link in po…

"His time" meaning Lucretius' from everything I've read.

Yes, I've already started preliminary work on the article. I would hesitate to put the slide show on any kind of permanent display since it's lacking all of the relevant citations.

Cassius has helped me correct a few errors, so here is the new link: I'll delete the old one. https://www.swisstransfer.com/…cb-4265-895e-ae5a4517dcab

More random stuff on the Munro ring--which I should probably start calling the Nott ring. A book published in 2020 called Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus includes this under an index of ancient gems, reports it as 'whereabouts unknown', but sites a previous German work for details. The German work is Die antiken Gemmen in two volumes by Adolf Furtwängler, published in 1900. The first volume has a plate displaying the gem: And the second volume has this brief…

(Quote) That is certainly a remarkably close match!

Don, you're a wizard! Thank you very much for looking for that, I'll add it to my source collection. I also want to add two passages from The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt, regarding the motives of Italian humanists like Petrarch, Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Niccolo Niccoli, and Poggio Bracciolini. (Quote) (Quote)

Onenski made a very good point in our conversation this evening, when he mentioned that urbane Romans of the republic period did not customarily wear beards. This page from Lacus Curtius is an excellent summary of the situation; it outlines several conditions under which Roman men would cease shaving, a trend that started with Scipio Africanus who Pliny records as the first Roman to shave daily. Roman men might not shave if: They are in mourning. Like wearing black, an unshaved beard in the Rom…