# Musei Capitolini present a marble type as a public Pythagoras image

Date: 1950

## The fact

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](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official encyclopedia, Loeb, or heritage pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Musei Capitolini — Capitoline Pythagoras type (https://www.museicapitolini.org/en; Roma Capitale / Musei Capitolini).

## Significance

A Capitoline herm is not an autograph.

A Capitoline herm is not an autograph.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Pythagoras: https://factrail.ai/people/pythagoras

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gkpt/hd_gkpt.htm
- https://www.museicapitolini.org/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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