Head of a Bearded Man

The elongated face features a furrowed brow with a pronounced crease, small eyes with thickened eyelids, a nose turned downward, and a small mouth sunken between a mustache and beard. The wavy hair is treated in striated locks forming three bands at the forehead and falling over the temples, leaving the ears uncovered. The long beard has dense, linear locks, and its attachment to the face is marked. Crowning the head is a wreath, originally decorated with floral elements. The head can be linked to a well-known Tarentine typology of the bearded banqueter, which is related to the Boeotian masks of Dionysos dating to 450-400 B.C.