# Anyone recognize the subject of this stone bust? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 30, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703 "2006-05-30T04:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/1 "2006-05-30T04:03:44Z")
A family member of a long-distance acquaintance of mine has a [stone bust](http://i3.tinypic.com/112h7pc.jpg) of a hairy old mystery man. She wonders who it is. Any ideas? (Please don’t ask me any questions about the artwork, as I know absolutely nothing about it except what it looks like, same as you.) Thanks all, in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/2 "2006-05-30T04:17:09Z")
Looks a lot like [Hippocrates](http://www.livius.org/a/1/greeks/hippocrates_kerylos.JPG) with the nose and all those brow ridges. Still that headband(?) looks religious. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/3 "2006-05-30T04:58:46Z")
We had a bust at school somewhat like this one. It was (supposedly) of Euclid. ---
**Author:** ![Tammi\_Terrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Tammi\_Terrell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tammi_Terrell)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/4 "2006-05-30T06:08:38Z")
D’oh! Looks like [Homer](http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/homer.htm) to me. – Tammi Terrell ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/5 "2006-05-30T08:54:30Z")
[QUOTE=Tammi Terrell] D’oh! Looks like [Homer](http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/homer.htm) to me. – Tammi Terrell [/QUOTE] Not only that, it looks like it’s a copy of the same bust—same of the hair patterns look to be the same. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/6 "2006-05-30T13:16:21Z")
Damn! I was going to say Aristotle. Of course, this is all a very moot point… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/7 "2006-05-30T13:35:09Z")
For some odd reason, I was thinking Galen… ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/8 "2006-05-30T15:04:18Z")
It’s the [Farnese Homer](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10477/10477-h/Illus0360.jpg), the original of which - in the sense of the surviving Roman copy of a lost Greek bust - is in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/9 "2006-05-30T15:52:32Z")
[QUOTE=APB] It’s the [Farnese Homer](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10477/10477-h/Illus0360.jpg), the original of which - in the sense of the surviving Roman copy of a lost Greek bust - is in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. [/QUOTE] Link didn’t work for me. [Here’s](http://www.holkham.co.uk/collection/homer.html) another pic. It looks like a match. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-recognize-the-subject-of-this-stone-bust/358703/10 "2006-05-30T17:18:58Z")
Nice bust. I wish I knew more about classical art, but it’s all Greek to me.