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Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek publishes and displays a canonical Caligula portrait type

The Copenhagen Glyptotek’s Julio-Claudian galleries, in place as a public museum by the early twentieth century, made a painted/marble Gaius type a shared European image. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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The Copenhagen Glyptotek’s Julio-Claudian galleries, in place as a public museum by the early twentieth century, made a painted/marble Gaius type a shared European image. It is not a forensic face.

Context

Shared portraits can support teaching and also freeze a villain’s brand.

Caligula is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Caligula

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Princeps as named in later editions and objects. Historians, museums, and later states publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactNy Carlsberg Glyptotek publishes and displays a canonical Caligula portrait type
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1906 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Ny Carlsberg GlyptotekNy Carlsberg Glyptotek · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Met — marble portrait bust of Caligula (14.37)Metropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCaligula
  2. contributed toFactNy Carlsberg Glyptotek publishes and displays a canonical Caligula portrait type
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek publishes and displays a canonical Caligula portrait type. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-glyptotek-portrait

https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-glyptotek-portrait

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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