Togatus Barberini

Togatus Barberini is a Roman marble sculpture from around the first-century AD[1] that depicts a full-body figure, referred to as a togatus, holding the heads of deceased ancestors in either hand.

[2] It is housed in the Centrale Montemartini in Rome, Italy (formerly in the Capitoline Museums).

[1] Little is known about this sculpture and who it depicts, but it is speculated to be a representation of the Roman funerary practice of creating death masks.

Recent research has suggested that the statue represents a patrician senator, holding the heads of his ancestors.

the figure is supposed to represent Brutus, holding the severed heads of his two sons, while others[who?]