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portrait characters and they may have been produced as generic types based on
earlier prototypes used over a long period. In fact, the hair and the beard styles of
the male and the hair styles of the female figures on the Antakya Sarcophagus
have very close Classical and Hellenistic prototypes. As mentioned before, the
hair and beards of Figure B, E and I probably derive from typical untidy
Hellenistic philosopher hair and beard styles, like that of the Capitoline
philosopher (Fig. 103). On the other hand, the hair styles of those females on the
Antakya Sarcophagus with an unveiled head (Figure A and D) have a coiffeur
similar to, for example, a Roman copy of a head, originally dating to c.450 BC,
probably that of Pheidisias’s “Athena Lemnia” (Fig. 120). The “Lemnian”
Athena has curly hair parted in the centre tied with a ribbon, a hair style
especially similar to that of Figure A on the Antakya Sarcophagus. Another
parallel hair style is from a slab of the “Nike Temple” parapet (Fig. 121), where
two women are depicted with a bull. The hair style of the one on the left is again
especially similar to that of Figure A on the Antakya Sarcophagus. Similar hair
styles can also be seen on Hellenistic examples, such as the “Melos Aphrodite”
(Fig. 122), dating to the 2 nd century BC. Aphrodite’s “ideal” hair is parted in the
centre, tied with a ribbon and arranged in a loose bun at the back. Her frontal
view is notably similar to that of the Figure D on the Antakya Sarcophagus. A
final example with an analogous hair style is on a Hellenistic coin (Fig. 123) and
a portrait bust (fig. 124) belonging to Queen Cleopatra VII Thea of Egypt,
although the hair of the queen is not parted in the centre; it is tied with a ribbon
and tidied in a small bun at the nape.
Although the hair and beard styles of the figures on the Antakya
Sarcophagus have obvious Classical and Hellenistic counterparts, some of them
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