Bust of Alexander

A copper-alloy bust shows a male head in frontal view, with a striated nemes headdress framing the face and a small coiled uraeus at the brow. The surface is pitted and patinated in greenish-brown tones, and the bust is cut off at the chest against a plain grey backdrop.

Look closer: A small coiled uraeus cobra rises at the top of the brow, above the headdress band.

Artist

Unknown

Date

150 BCE–200 CE

Medium

Copper alloy

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3744 × 3744 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1908