Hellenistic Portraits, McFadden 1951George H. McFadden

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ties existing between him and Lysimachos. The head, moreover, is made with the back completed in plaster. A technique (?) (hw: "a") (hw: "See above") is characteristic of Alexandrian sculpture. What we have left is also little more than a mask. Some of the hair is extant and this is in plaster. The portrait is that of a young man without a line in his face. The diadem is absent. Of course, if it is a portrait of Ptolemy, as Poulsen believes, it would be one of him before he assumed a diadem in 304 when he was over 60 years of age. Again the absence of the diadem does not prove that it is not a portrait of Ptolemy, but it does greatly widen the field of speculation. The nose is unlike that of the coin portrait. The tip, always the most distinguishing part, is not extant. The chin does not protrude beyond the plane of the mouth as it does on the coins, but on the contrary recedes slightly from it. It is fleshy, unlike the firm, bony chin of the coins. The fold of flesh over the corner of the eye would be unbecoming to a young man. The head does not resemble the Ptolemy we know as he was in later life.

How he appeared in his youth is a matter for speculation. (hw: "(a)") (hw: "Poulsen on Vhalke") (hw: "21") (hw: "(he) compares the Pergamon head with another head from an art shop in Cairo (Figs. ). There is a striking resemblance between it and the Pergamon head when viewed in profile. The resemblance between the full faces otherwise might not have been noticed. The Cairo head is of a much older man. The resemblance, however viewed, are quite different. The Copenhagen head seems closer. The chins, however viewed, are quite different. The resemblance between the Cairo head and the Copenhagen head seems closer."