The hair is closely cropped, yet not so closely as to prevent it from dividing naturally into thick, short curls.

The body, clothed in the chlamys, is awkwardly shapen, and too narrow for the head.

One arm hangs pendent; the other is brought round to the front; the feet are lost.

All these monuments are the results of few excavations; and I do not doubt that the soil of Alexandria would yield many such, if it could be methodically explored.

The school which produced them continued to draw nearer and nearer to the schools of Greece, and the stiff manner, which it never wholly lost, was scarcely regarded as a defect at an epoch when certain sculptors in the service of Rome especially affected the archaic style.