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Bust of the ancient Greek general and historian Thucydides from the Royal Ontario Museum. Background removed for clarity.

Picture taken by myself on July 9th 2005.

Description: Head of Thucydides. Marble. Portrait head of 4th century BC type. Front facing, with moustache and beard, short curly hair. The portrait is a copy, probably late Hellenistic, of a lost Greek work of the early 4th century BC.(The Holkham Hall bust is another copy of the same original, probably Hadrianic.) Height: 36.8 centimeters. rom.on.ca

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Bust of Thucydides made from marble from the Royal Ontario Museum.

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