Portrait head from a statue of a philosopher
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Portrait head from a statue of a philosopher
Portrait head from a statue of a philosopher. About 240 BCE.
Portrait head from a statue of a philosopher. Bronze. Found in the Antikythera shipwreck. The eyeballs are made of a different material and the irises of glass paste. This statue depicted a Cynic philosopher, probably Bion the Borysthenite.
Exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.