And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Bronze head of a man, thought to be from Cyrenaica, now in eastern Libya. Artist unknown; ca. 300 BC. Found beneath the cella of the temple of Apollo at Cyrene, Libya; now in the British Museum.
I wonder how it looked when new and not buried for 2300 years
Given the date and location, perhaps a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
ReplyDeleteCould be, or maybe a Berber?
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