Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek – Emperor Caligula

This colour reconstruction was based on tiny flakes of paint found in the original.

Emperor Caligula was generally considered a bit mad, it has been told that he wanted to make his horse Incitatus a consul. Suetonius wrote about his deeds: "Many men of honourable rank were first disfigured with the marks of branding-irons and then condemned to the mines, to work at building roads, or to be thrown to the wild beasts; or else he shut them up in cages on all fours, like animals, or had them sawn asunder. Not all these punishments were for serious offences, but merely for criticising one of his shows, or for never having sworn by his Genius."
He was emperor for about four years and he was murdered before he was 30.

More info:
www.roman-emperors.org/gaius.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula
penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Ca...