Portrait of Pittacus

This portrait is considered a likeness of Pittacus, an aristocrat from Mytilene,a city on the Greek island of Lesbos. In antiquity Pittacus, who lived in the 6th century B, was included among the Seven Wise Men. This work is a 2nd century AD copy of an original portrait statue of the second half of the 4th century BC, erected in Greece in honour of Pittacus.