Colossal statue depicting Augustus as a divinity. The emperor, semi-naked, is represented in idealistic nudity showing the same kind of musculature and geometric features as Polykleitos’ Diadoumenos. A Greek-style chlamys is wound across the lower part of his body. This sort of image, known in iconographical studies as the “Hüftmantel Typus” (“hip-manyel type”), was commonly used for representations of divinities and for godlike images of leaders of the Roman State. This representation of Augustus belongs to the type of Prima Porta. It is a posthumous portrait; it may have been sculpted in the years of the emperor Tiberius (14 – 37 AD). Thasos marble statue 14 - 37 AD Found in Thessaloniki Sarapeion Thessaloniki, National Archaeological Museum