This head of the Greek orator Demosthenes (384 to 322 BCE) is a Roman copy and was mounted on a square pillar called a herm. The bronze original was set up in Athens. It had the distinction of being one of the earliest Greek portraits that was a lifelike representation, without idealisation
Munich, Glyptothek 292
Purchased from the Munich Technische Hochschule in 1884
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 303 (n.1)
Furtwängler: Catalogue of the Munich Museum, 316
Furtwängler: Hundert Tafeln, 66
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 81, no.382
Found in the Circus of Maxentius in Rome