Hellenistic Portraits, McFadden 1951George H. McFadden

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2. The nose on the coin is irregular in outline. That of the bust is straight. 3. The mouth of the [handwritten: with] bust unlike that of the coin has [handwritten: thin] lips [handwritten: in] straight outlines. 4. On the bust the underside of the chin is straight. The coin portrait has a double chin.

The style of the Naples bust is most like that of the Apoxyomenos. The features resemble those of the young athlete also, in some respects, more closely than they do the coin portrait of the old man. There is an inscribed stone in the Vatican copied by Pietro Sabino which informs us that Lysippos made a statue of King Seleukos. It had been suggested that the Naples bust [handwritten: might] be a copy of it. The inscription reads:

Handwritten: Seleukos Basileus Lysippos Ektes 37

It would indicate that Lysippos made a statue of Seleukos after he had assumed the diadem in 304. Gardener suggests that it may have been the Roman copyist who added the word [handwritten: Basileus] when he copied the original. This is, of course, possible. Be that as it may, it is very unlikely that Lysippus lived to see King Seleukos as the old man that he is in our portrait, if indeed the bust is a portrait of him. We are told that Lysippus made many statues of Alexander [handwritten: from] his youth up. Hence he was active in the mid fourth century. Pausanius [handwritten: 38] tells us that Troilus in 372-368 B.C. won two victories and that Lysippus executed his statue