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Musei Capitolini present a marble type as a public Pythagoras image

The Capitoline Pythagoras (this page’s avatar type) is a later portrait, not a photograph from life. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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The Capitoline Pythagoras (this page’s avatar type) is a later portrait, not a photograph from life. Access to a face-type is a modest learning path.

Context

A Roman marble is not a 6th-century likeness of verified identity.

Pythagoras is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A Capitoline herm is not an autograph.

A Capitoline herm is not an autograph.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pythagoras

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.19 · verified

    Named sage as heading of later school reports. Iamblichus, Euclid’s editors, and later math teachers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Met Heilbrunn — Greek philosophy in artMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Musei Capitolini — Capitoline Pythagoras typeRoma Capitale / Musei Capitolini · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPythagoras
  2. contributed toFactMusei Capitolini present a marble type as a public Pythagoras image
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Musei Capitolini present a marble type as a public Pythagoras image. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/py-capitoline-bust-type

https://factrail.ai/facts/py-capitoline-bust-type

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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