Euthydemus of Bactrian

In the Giustiniani collection of antiquities, this portrait depicting a man with a severe expression, marked by a fervent realism, appeared as a pileated servant, that is, bearing the pileus, a cap commonly worn by individuals of humble extraction. The virile figure portrayed has traditionally been identified with Euthydemus I, a Hellenistic dynast who reigned over Bactria, a land in ancient times part of Alexander the Great's empire.