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Figure 1: Frontal view of Statue 55 housed in the Little Dining Room of Petworth House, West Sussex, England (Photograph: Miles Russell)

Figure 2: Close-up of Petworth Statue 55 prior to the restoration of 1999. (a): right profile clearly showing areas of ancient survival, damage and the late 18th-century replacements to upper left-hand third of the head, nose and neck; (b): front view (Photographs: © the National Trust)

Figure 3: 3D scan of Petworth Statue 55 portrait post-conservation. The areas of restoration and replacement are now almost impossible to identify (Scan image: Harry Manley)

Figure 4: Coin portraits of Nero. (a): coin type I. Aureus minted AD51-54 from his first coiffure type; (b) coin type II. Aureus minted AD54-5 from his first coiffure type; (c): coin type III. Aureus minted AD57-58 from his first coiffure type; (d): coin type IV. Aureus minted AD61-2 from his second coiffure type; (e): coin type V. Aureus minted AD65-6 from his third coiffure type (Photographs: © Trustees of the British Museum)

Figure 5: Portraits of the teenage Nero. (a): front view of a statue preserved in the Museo Nazionale di Antichità, Parma; (b): left profile (Photographs: Diana Jones); (c): front view of a statue preserved in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; (d): left profile (Photographs: Miles Russell)

Figure 6: Portrait of the teenage Nero portrait preserved in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen. (a): Three-quarters view; (b): front; (c): left profile (Photographs: Roger Ulrich)

Figure 7: Full togate portrait figures of the teenage Nero. (a): statue originally derived from the basilica at Velleia, now preserved in the Museo Nazionale di Antichità, Parma (Photograph: Diana Jones); (b): statue preserved in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (Photograph: Miles Russell)

Figure 8: Portrait of Michaelis no. 202 housed in the East Cloister of Wilton House in Wiltshire, southern England, showing areas of ancient survival, damage, plaster infill on the cheek and lips and marble replacement to the nose, chin, ear and neck. (a): full three-quarter view; (b): left profile (Photograph: Miles Russell)

Figure 9: 3D scan of the Wilton bust (Scan image: Harry Manley)

Figure 10: Portrait of Nero from his second coiffure type created in AD59 for the fifth anniversary of his accession, found on the Palatine Hill in Rome and preserved in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme. (a): three-quarter view; (b): front (Photographs: Francesca Tronchin)

Figure 11: Portrait of Nero from his third coiffure type created in AD64 for the tenth anniversary of his accession, preserved in the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts. (a): right profile; (b): front (Photographs: Diana Jones)

Figure 12: Portrait of Nero from his accession period, first coiffure type, dating to between AD55 and 59. (a): front view of a portrait preserved in the Museo Nazionale, Cagliari (Photograph: Diana Jones); (b): front view of a veiled head type preserved in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome (Photograph: Francesca Tronchin); (c): left profile (Photograph: Roger Ulrich)