Seuthes III

I’m just trying to close tabs and I wanted to save a record of this for later.

This head is from a tomb in Bulgaria (enjoy a happy wiki spiral here). And likely dates to very end of 4th cent.

There is plenty written on the coinage of the various Seuthes, all kings of Trace, including specifically on his remarkable portrait.

Here’s a bronze from Paris collection from specifically Seuthes III; the BnF holds 8 more examples; 4 in BM; 5 in ANS; AND 9 more in IKMK (but it won’t let me share search results with a stable URL so you’ll have to search yourself):

Anyway a good teaching example for Hellenistic portraiture, and verism/veristic traditions outside Rome.