﻿AN 
  ANTIQUE 
  MARBLE 
  BUST. 
  423 
  

  

  " 
  In 
  adopting 
  this 
  opinion 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  led 
  by 
  the 
  best 
  of 
  all 
  guides, 
  an 
  in- 
  

   scribed 
  coin, 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  brass 
  series, 
  not 
  very 
  uncommon. 
  

  

  " 
  My 
  colleague, 
  Mr 
  Oldfield, 
  agrees 
  with 
  me 
  in 
  thinking, 
  that 
  the 
  coins 
  and 
  

   the 
  photographs 
  are 
  as 
  similar 
  as 
  could 
  possibly 
  be 
  expected. 
  

  

  " 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honour, 
  &c, 
  

  

  " 
  T. 
  Burgon." 
  

  

  How 
  interesting 
  this 
  revelation 
  at 
  the 
  eleventh 
  hour, 
  and 
  how 
  curiously 
  it 
  

   dovetails 
  into 
  what 
  I 
  had 
  written 
  ! 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  remembered 
  that 
  I 
  had 
  mentioned 
  

   the 
  likeness 
  of 
  Octavia 
  to 
  Augustus, 
  — 
  the 
  treatment 
  of 
  the 
  hair 
  peculiar 
  to 
  that 
  

   age, 
  — 
  and 
  the 
  accordance 
  of 
  her 
  character 
  with 
  the 
  bust 
  ; 
  but 
  all 
  these 
  remarks 
  

   are 
  quite 
  as 
  applicable 
  to 
  her 
  daughter. 
  They 
  were 
  both 
  of 
  them 
  singularly 
  

   beautiful, 
  singularly 
  amiable, 
  and 
  singularly 
  unfortunate, 
  as 
  I 
  had 
  remarked 
  ; 
  

   and 
  what 
  I 
  regretted 
  as 
  wanting 
  for 
  Octavia, 
  the 
  evidence 
  of 
  coins, 
  has 
  been 
  

   found 
  for 
  Antonia 
  Augusta 
  by 
  the 
  industry 
  of 
  Mr 
  Burgon 
  and 
  his 
  colleague. 
  On 
  

   their 
  authority 
  we 
  may 
  safely 
  say, 
  that 
  the 
  scale 
  preponderates 
  for 
  Antonia 
  

   Augusta 
  ; 
  and 
  so 
  the 
  question 
  may 
  be 
  considered 
  as 
  set 
  at 
  rest, 
  and 
  the 
  riddle 
  of 
  

   the 
  bust 
  solved. 
  

  

  