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Modern scholarship rejects the identification of this bust as Josephus
Since this image keeps getting re-added to Josephus-related articles, it's worth presenting the facts here.

Modern scholarship definitively rejects the identification of this bust as Josephus, as well as the rationale upon which it was originally made. Indeed, the first of the sources listed below explicitly criticizes Wikipedia for presenting this image as a depiction of Josephus. See e.g.

1) "How Do You Know a Jew When You See One?" by the historian Steven Fine in the collection Fashioning Jews: Clothing, Culture, and Commerce (2013), p. 19–20:

2) "Distinguishing Jewishness in Antiquity" by the historian Jonathan P. Roth in the collection A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World (2005), p. 54:

3) Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls by the archaeologist Magen Broshi (2001), p.47:.

4) Flavius Josephus Between Jerusalem and Rome by the classicist Per Bilde (2002 [1988]), p. 60:

Hopefully this will be the end of the issue, until such time as a preponderance of reliable sources is produced which contradicts what is stated in these. Generalrelative (talk) 16:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)