Demetrios Poliorketes

1st century B.C. - 1st century A.D.
Marble
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, California

The subject of this bust is King Demetrios I of Macedon (337-283 B.C.). According to the label provided at the Getty Villa, the horns are "associated with divinity."

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Photographed at the Getty Villa by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.