Tiny, 1800-year-old portrait of Alexander the Great found in Denmark

Cosmos magazine ^ | April 23, 2024 | Evrim Yazgin

[SunkenCiv]

Bronze alloy portrait of Alexander the Great found in Denmark.

Credit: M. Peterson, Museum West Zealand.

[SunkenCiv]

• Report: Ancient Roman graveyard found in suburban Copenhagen [10/11/2007]
• New finds suggest Romans won big North Germany battle [ Maximinus Thrax ] [09/15/2010]
• Bone trove in Denmark tells story of 'Barbarian' battle [06/02/2018]

[Beowulf9]

Oh whoa, I got all excited to see the portrait. See what he looked like. Then I saw that.

So ol Alex had a fro with a bow.

[SunkenCiv]

By the time this was made, he’d been dead for centuries.

[rfp1234]

With curved horns, no less. They knew even 2000 years ago he was the GOAT.

[mass55th]

"So ol Alex had a fro with a bow."

Looks like he had Princess Leia's side buns.

[Beowulf9]

Hence the attention to detail and perfection in capturing the likeness of the face.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) He was portrayed on an coin, in profile, as the personification of an Egyptian deity, complete with horns. The nitwits in the muzzie world still believe he actually had horns.

[SunkenCiv]

His likeness was likely still viewable through his crystal sarcophagus.

• Has the location of Alexander the Great's Tomb been found [03/12/2020]

[Fiji Hill]

"The mini portrait dates to about 200 CE AD 200."

FIFY

[SunkenCiv]

Nothing to contribute, as always.

[rfp1234]

They wouldn’t know, they still teach their kids that Jews are either apes or pigs.

[Fester Chugabrew]

It sure the hell ain’t no Rembrandt.

[ModelBreaker]

A dead ringer for Alexander.

[Eagles6]

Looks eggzactly like him😏

[nikos1121]

BS

[nikos1121]

CE? What happened to BC?

[Beowulf9]

“His likeness was likely still viewable through his crystal sarcophagus”.

Well, now THAT’S pretty darn interesting.

so now did that influence that little portrait, (really it’s a sculpture).

[Mount Athos]

One of my favorite things to do is to call CE dating the “CHRISTIAN ERA”. they normally call this common era, but if you call it Christian era their faces will turn red, they will get mad, and their blood pressure will go haywire. It’s great.

[daku]

Alexander the Great kind of looked like Gene Wilder