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    Louvre MA 59

    Collection:Paris, Musée du Louvre
    Title:Head of Sokrates
    Subject:Sokrates, slightly balding, and bearded, with a mustache
    Class:Free-standing portrait statue
    Material:Marble
    Date:UnknownPeriod:Roman
    Style:Late Classical
    Original/Copy:OriginalOriginal:Portrait of Sokrates (type B)
    Condition:Head only (complete)
    Technique:In-the-round
    Scale:Life-size

    Form and Style: Zanker suggests that this head and Capitoline 508 offer the most reliable versions of Lysippos' original.

    Technique: The head is worked, at the base of the neck, for insertion into a separate statue body.

    Sources Used: Zanker 1995, n. 32

    Other Bibliography: Fittschen 1988, pl. 58; Richter 1965, figs. 513, 516

    (Amy C. Smith)






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