A painted portrait from the Augustan period in the Municipium Augusta Bilbilis (Calatayud, Zaragoza, Spain)
Journal: Journal of Roman Archaeology
Year: 2025

Abstract This analysis focuses on a young female portrait enclosed within an eight-pointed frame, located in the upper zone of a wall fragment discovered among a substantial assemblage of painted plaster within the fill of the torcularium of the Domus del Larario in the Municipium Augusta Bilbilis. The wall to which this fragment originally belonged likely formed part of a cubiculum within the same domus. The portrait is dated to the last quarter of the 1st c. BCE, making it the earliest known e