The thickly rolled fillet around the woman’s head draws attention to the sitter’s performance of hereditary liturgical obligations as a priestess. Behind, her hair is plaited and arranged in a bun; in front, it falls in corkscrew ringlets that float over her brow. Over a tunica (lighter undergarment), she wears a thicker palla (mantle) around her shoulders. In Flavian times, womens’ hair-styles became increasingly elaborate, as the satirist Juvenal remarked. This bust most closely resembles portraits of Trajan’s sister, Marciana, and the much more baroque Fonseca bust in Rome that has been identified tentatively as the neice of Trajan, Vibia Matidia. Befitting the office of the sitter, the Carlos portrait is much more restrained.