Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

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A Roman Marble Herm Bust of the Young Dionsyos, circa 2nd Century A.D.

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December 8, 05:04 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Roman Marble Herm Bust of the Young Dionsyos

circa 2nd Century A.D.


his hair bound in a broad fillet passing across the forehead, tied in a chignon at the back, falling in long strands over the shoulders and on the nape of neck, and surmounted by a scarf or veil, a long curl escaping before each ear; restorations in wax.

Height 47 cm.

said to have been found at Neffiès, Hérault, France in the 19th Century
Louis Noguier (d. 1905), Béziers
Jean Dardé, Béziers, 1920s
French private collection, Béziers, by descent

1894 engraving by Lucien Gautier: https://archives-pierresvives.herault.fr/ark:/37279/vtae6688bae0a98b165

Ernest Roschach, Histoire graphique de Languedoc, Toulouse, 1904, p. 202, fig. 111

Émile Espérandieu, Recueil général des bas-reliefs, statues et bustes de la Gaule romaine, vol. 9, Paris, 1925, p. 179, no. 6871, illus.

The only other known ancient Roman copy of this type is in Berlin: https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/1121200.

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