Mid - Late Hellenistic. Appendix no.8, pp. This under life-size head represents Alexander the Great. The face is long, with a high forehead, prominent cheekbones, flat cheeks, squared chin, and strong jawline. From the front, the neck is strongly modelled, its twist indicated by the bulging sterno-mastoid muscles, yet from a side view, it appears especially thick and set onto the head at an awkward angle.
Most attention is lavished on the hairstyle from the front.
Two rows of short curls frame the face. At the top of the forehead they spring up on either side of a faintly suggested part in the well-known anastole. This elaborate treatment does not continue onto the rest of the head. Elsewhere, the hair is only impressionistically suggested by point and chisel strokes. The tool marks become progressively rougher towards the nape of the neck where the hair merges into a large strut.