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Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Virginia survey, 1995.
Image on file.
(Sculpture, on front just below bust, in raised letters:) C(LA)UD(I)O unsigned
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Summary:
A bust of Roman emperor Claudius wearing a toga adorned on the front with a relief of a lion's head. His toga is gathered over his proper left shoulder and fastened with a round pin. Claudius' head is made of white stone and his toga is made of colored marble. The bust was once mounted on a fluted column which is now broken.
