The so-called Munich King is a Roman copy of an early classical Greek original showing a hesitant, stiff contrapposto from around 460 BC. The royal connection was made from the headband but it is almost certainly a depiction of Hephaestus (Vulcan in Roman mythology), the god of blacksmiths.
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