Male head with the Hector cut, a classical hairstyle or tonsure. Trojan mullet style also known as the Hector cut. Abantes or Abantians, an ancient Thracian warrior tribe, also cut their forelocks to prevent enemies from grabbing their hair. Tonsura. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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