Severian period, early 3rd century CE, made of marble, from the theatre of Ephesus
The bearded man wearing chiton and himation in the fragment of a bust sports a full head of hair and an unusual headdress: a wide 'crown' of ribbons and a wreath of leaves set with a small central bust of a bearded deity. Such 'bust-crowns' identified an agonothetes, a public benefactor - great aristocrats who donated and paid for games for the populace held in honour of the Olympian gods or an emperor.
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