Roman republican female portraits from Anatolia

The subject of this work is, seven woman portraits from Anatolia. These examples, which have been identified among portrait samples dating to Roman Republic Period, are very rare. The portraits, which reflect the characteristic features of the portraiture of Roman Republic Period, have also been found in Dorylaion, Nicomedia, Sinope, Smyrna and Ephesos. One example exhibiting in Copenhagen Muşeum, without accurate location but according to the muşeum inventory register, is the only one which is purchased in Istanbul. Unfortunately very few of these portraits, which were created by Anatolian craftsmen who were inheritors of the Hellenistic tradition, were found in scientific excavations. These portraits, which were found far from their original contexts and without epigraphically evidences, have been published earlier but outcomes from published materials have been revised in the light of new evidences.