A ROMAN MARBLE ARCHAISTIC HERM HEAD OF DIONYSOS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Other Properties
A ROMAN MARBLE ARCHAISTIC HERM HEAD OF DIONYSOS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

with long beard composed of corkscrew curls, his hair bound in a fillet and arranged in corkscrew curls over the forehead, two long tresses falling on each shoulder; no restorations.
Height 12 cm.

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Provenance:
French private collection, early 20th Century (based on mount and label)

French private collection, acquired in the 1970s

Hôtel Drouot, Crait-Muller, commissaires-priseurs, February 15th, 2019, no. 12