Portrait of a bearded man

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This portrait is often seen as belonging to either the Epicurean thinker Hermarcus, who lived in the 3rd century BC, or Democritus, a Greek philosopher born between 460 and 370 BC. The painting is a copy from the Hadrianic period, dating back to the 2nd century AD, of an original work created in the 4th century BC.