The ancestors of the roman portrait bust can be traced to the stylized heads on funerary jars and urns. etruscan egyptian greek persian

the ancestors of the Roman portrait bust can be traced to the stylized heads on ETRUSCAN funerary jars and urns this type of art was really popular within the time period between 9th and 2nd BC. Since the early grek civilization really appreciate their histoy this type of art heavily influenced the Greeks art, which is why we can see the commonalities between roman and Greek art from their peak of civilization