Portrait head of a «kosmetes»
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Chronology: 200-230 AD. EAM 397
The portrait depicts a mature, bearded man. The short hair is arranged in tousled, crescent-shaped locks rendered in high relief. The short beard and the moustache are worked in lower relief. The swollen ears indicate his athletic past as a wrestler. He would wear a himation.