Bust of a «kosmetes» with part of the herm

Chronology: 231/232 AD. EAM 388
The portrait depicts a mature, bearded man. He wears a himation over his left shoulder. A receding hairline and deep wrinkles on the forehead indicate his age. His physiognomy, but mostly the solid structure of the skull with a tongue-shaped tuft of hair in the middle of the forehead refers to portraits of the orator Aeschines of 320 BC. The swollen ears indicate his athletic past as a wrestler.