It is believed that the fragment of the marble statuette from the Hellenistic period represents Socrates. The first portrait of Socrates was made 10 to 20 years after his death representing him as Silenus, the companion of God Dionysus, who was usually depicted as part man and part beast. In the following decades, this representation of the Athenian philosopher became conventional applying at the same time inner characteristics and suggesting his exceptional nature far from the conventional lifestyle of the time.