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21 Especially remarkable is a portrait of Augustus of the Alcudia type (Arheološka zbirka Osor, inv. no. AZO 409), a portrait type,
conceived in the 30s BC, which remains unaffected by the later Prima Porta variant developed after the Senate conferred the ti-
tle Augustus upon Octavian in 27 BC (Zanker 1973, 44; Smith 1996, 37; Cambi 2000, 31; Jadrić-Kučan 2011, 144).
22 The statuary group may have been erected during one of the extended stays of Drusus Minor and his wife in the province of Dal-
matia. He resided there from the winter of AD 17–18, departed to participate in the campaigns against the Germanic tribes in
Germania, and returned following the sudden death of Germanicus and his funeral in AD 19. Drusus remained in Dalmatia un-
til assuming his second consulship in May AD 20 (Cambi 2000, 39; Jadrić-Kučan 2011, 144–5; Jadrić-Kučan 2018, 253).
23 In addition to the previously mentioned marble heads of members of the familia Caesaris, a relief of Spinario was also found in
Osor (Arheološka zbirka Osor, inv. no. AZO 842), which represents the adaptation of the well-known Hellenistic genre figure
(see lately Šmid 2024–2025).