Pontifex Maximus
The Via Labicana Augustus is a sculpture of the Roman emperor Augustus as "Pontifex Maximus", with his head veiled for a sacrifice. The statue is dated as having been made after 12 BC. It was found on slopes of the Oppian Hill, in the Via Labicana, in 1910. It is now in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme at the National Museum of Rome. Augustus became the Pontifex Maximus when Lepidus, the previous Pontifex Maximus, died.