Recent excavations on the Sicilian island of Pantelleria have yielded three splendid marble heads of the Roman era. Currently exhibited in the regional archeological museum in Palermo, the sculptures depict Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), Titus Flavius Vespesian (AD 39-81) and a lady believed to be either Agrippina the Elder (14 BC-AD 33) or Antonia the Younger (36 BC-circa AD 37), mother of Claudius. Julius Caesar (shown here) is the most readily recognised and most easily identified personage. Discovered in August 2003, the sculptures were created in granular white marble, that of Titus possibly Greek stone from Thasos. The head of Julius Caesar, rendered in the Tusculum style, is almost certainly a posthumous likeness, while that of Titus, though presenting a youthful image, is typical of those sculpted late in his lifetime, around AD 79. There is little doubt that the head of Titus was intended to be part of a statue of his complete body. In Roman times heads were sometimes sculpted separately from bodies and later attached --actually inserted in a peg-like construction. The female head is certainly associated with the Julian dynasty. It has been observed that in Roman times the accurate representation of actual female personages was rather rare, as most statues were either "typical" or idealised women or goddesses. This has left us with little concrete (or marble) knowledge of what certain famous Roman women really looked like.