Marble portrait of the Hellenistic monarch and military commander Pyrrhus of Epirus (318-272 BCE).
Marble portrait of the Hellenistic monarch and military commander Pyrrhus of Epirus (318-272 BCE). From the rectangular peristyle of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5. -- source link
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