Modern commemorative object
Modern commemorative bust of Plutarch at Chaeronea
Modern commemorative bust
Publicly sited at Chaeronea, Boeotia, Plutarch's home town.
Object provenance
Modern, not ancientRecord checked- Object
- Modern commemorative bust
- Made
- Evidence level: DocumentedModern
- Found
- Not recorded in this catalogue
- Excavated
- Not recorded in this catalogue
- Now at
- Publicly sited at Chaeronea, Boeotia, Plutarch's home town.
- Inventory
- Not recorded in this catalogue
- Identification
- Evidence level: DocumentedPlutarch, as imagined by a modern sculptor
No securely identified ancient portrait of Plutarch survives. A statue base found at Delphi carries an inscription honouring him, which establishes that he was commemorated there; it does not supply a likeness. Any image circulating as an ancient portrait of Plutarch should be treated with corresponding caution, and this one makes no such claim.
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How to read the evidence labels
- Evidence level: Documented
- Supported by a named primary text or by excavated material evidence.
- Evidence level: Probable
- Supported by strong inference that most specialists accept.
- Evidence level: Disputed
- Substantial specialist disagreement exists; competing readings are stated.
- Evidence level: Literary
- Belongs to poetic or mythological construction rather than to history.
- Evidence level: Mythological
- Belongs to shared religious or mythic tradition rather than to any single text.
- Evidence level: Unknown
- The available evidence is insufficient to decide.
These labels describe the status of the evidence, not our confidence in a conclusion. A claim marked Literary is not a claim we doubt; it is a claim about what kind of thing a poem is.