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Pigmentation of the Early Roman Emperors
In the table given below, I have compiled all of the known data concerning the pigmentation of the early Roman Emperors. This list
begins with Augustus (27 BC-AD 14), the first Emperor, and ends with Commodus (AD 180-192), the last ruler of the Antonine dynasty.
It proved convenient to end the list at this particular point, because information about Imperial hair and eye colour becomes much
more scanty, after the reign of Commodus. Also, most of the Emperors who succeeded Commodus, were not of purely Roman ancestry.
Therefore, their colouring would not furnish us with any worthwhile discoveries, in relation to the appearance of the Roman-Patrician