Bronze bust of King Ptolemy II Philadelphus (reign 285-246 BC), formerly known as Ptolemy Lathyros. Roman copy from the 1st century AD after a Greek original found in the atrium in the Villa dei Papiri (Villa of the Papyri) in Herculaneum on display in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Campania, Italy.

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