[eastsider]

You need to see this, my friend.

[Romulus]

What a striking likeness. No one did it better than my Romans.

I was surprised to read about the “claw” in the hair. I see it in this bust of Augustus, but not in Caesar’s (who had male pattern baldness, as we can see).

A lot of scholars see similarities between Alexandrine iconography and contemporaneous depictions of the Buddha (the top knot in the hair being a prominent feature). It’s easy to argue the existence of cross-fertilisation between the Hellenistic world and the Indus valley.

Thanks for the ping, old friend. Best wishes.