Oh, I was talking about
style and the family likenesses of the Carian dynasty! Pixodaros was Maussolos's youngest brother, the OCD says. The big
statues are probably
Ionian or Carian
work.* If a thesis that I
had the privilege of supervising some years ago is right, the date of the
statues is a
bit too early for a
portrait of Pixodaros (the thesis is too early to have been filed in .pdf format), although the popular story about Artemisia retaining the sculptors and the latter continuing the great project just to be a
part of something so great--just a tale that arose CONSEQUENT to the lists of Wonders becoming popular--cannot really date the completion of the monument, and there has been disagreement about the date of the
statues. If it is unjustified, however, to assume the big
statues are Maussolos and Artemisia, it is equally so to think the male one might be
his brother. The big statue has NO ONE's name written on it, unlike the coin. Anyway, never mind the mustache,** which has nothing to do with real likeness, familial OR stylistic. I was looking at the modeling of the brow (not just its having a crease), the set of the eyes, the shape and modeling of the cheek bones, and the character-expression that the artists sought.
* Bryaxis is thought of precisely because
his name is not of Greek origin. This is just a guess, though not an unintelligent one.
** If the coin and the statue WERE the same person, he could have grown facial hair between the issue of the one and the carving of the other.
Patricia Lawrence