Barkus Aurelius

Barkus Aurelius is a stone bust of a Roman emperor that stands on the desk in the squire's study MM E3·00:35:13. Items from the desk have been scattered outward in a circle, but the stone bust has not moved MM E3·00:35:13 MM E3·00:36:11. Brennan says everything else on the desk carries a thin layer of dust with a charcoal tinge, and he texts Sylvester's player what the dust on the bust is like MM E3·00:36:11.

Barkus Aurelius is a stone bust of a Roman emperor on the squire's desk, whose dust differs from the dust on the rest of the desk MM E3·00:35:13 MM E3·00:36:11. In MM_03 Brennan texts Raph, Ian's player, that the date on the bust is wrong, and in MM_05 the Vicar works out that the bust's end date does not fit the next emperor's date MM E3·01:02:57 MM E5·01:06:10. The bust is gone from the study and is found in the library MM E5·00:17:10 MM E5·01:04:37.

In MM_06 Daisy sees that the bust has a plaster base and is heavier than the other busts, and Brennan says the bust stood on the part of the desk Daisy found electrified MM E6·00:40:27 MM E6·00:43:05. Daisy carves open the base and pulls out a powerful electromagnet MM E6·00:42:09. Brennan says the base, where the date is written, is the part the criminal had to fake to insert the device MM E6·00:47:43. In MM_09 Brennan recalls that Rosalind said the bust is often returned to the library MM E9·00:22:53. The padlock to the ritual chamber opens only on the wrong year written on the bust, the year the criminals could read off it MM E9·00:39:15 MM E9·00:40:29.