Portrait of Menander. Grayish white marble, broken off at base of neck. Life size. Frontal pose. Features, including nose, intact except for missing edge of proper right ear. Clean shaven. Short loosely curly hair parted on proper left. Close-set, deeply sunk eyes. Roman copy of Greek original of early 3rd c. BC. Probably originally inserted in a bust or statue.
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Fay, Temple. "The Head." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 1, no. 4. (1959): 12-18. See: p. 12ff
Robinson, David M. "A New Marble Bust of Menander, Wrongly Called Vergil." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 83, no. 3. (1940): 465-477. See: p. 471
