Centuries later, the Roman Empire systematically eliminated images of dishonored emperors through its practice of damnatio memoriae. During the empire’s Third Century Crisis, emperors thriftily recut earlier busts of the baddies, such as this marble portrait of an emperor wearing the corona civica (ca. 250-284 C.E.). The front features a short hairstyle popular in the third century, but behind the ears, where few people were likely to notice, the flowing locks of (probably) first-century emperor Caligula were left untouched. The recut emperor was soon erased himself: few of them survived long in the chaos of the Third Century Crisis, and we don’t know his name.