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This portrait bust of a young Roman woman in profile shows her elaborate hairstyle of cascading curls with traces of the hair's original red polychrome- marble ca. 41-54 AD from House of the Citharist, Pompeii at National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy 
Some scholars have identified this portrait bust as Agrippina the Elder, mother of emperor Caligula due to her particular hairstyle or could be that this young noble woman is mimicking her look [1]
Portrait of Staia Quinta, freedwoman shows a similar hairstyle of cascading curls w/ small traces of original polychromy of yellow & red-Latin inscription on the herm reads: STAIA L L QVINTA, meaning “L.L (Lucii Liberta – emancipated slave) Staia Quinta” Roman marble 1st c. AD
The Portrait of Staia Quinta, freedwoman is at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen [1]
This marble head of the goddess Isis is depicted with her uraeus crown on an elaborate Roman hairstyle-head is a fragment of a statue-Roman Imperial 2nd C. AD @MuseeLouvre
Portrait bust of a Roman noble woman. Her coiffure emulates a type worn by Faustina the Elder (d. AD 141), wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius (r. AD 138–61) suggesting that she lived during this period. Her gem-encrusted diadem alludes to her elevated social standing @artinstitutechi
Watch this fascinating video of scholar Janet Stephens, a professional hairstylist and experimental archaeologist recreating the 2nd c. AD Roman hairstyles of empress Faustina the Younger wife of Marcus Aurelius:
