A Roman Marble Janiform Herm of a Goddess, circa 2nd Century A.D.

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July 6, 01:15 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

A Roman Marble Janiform Herm of a Goddess

circa 2nd Century A.D.

both heads veiled and wearing a laurel wreath, one with centrally parted, curly hair, the other with a fillet passing over the forehead; no restorations.

Height 45 cm.

This lot has a W symbol. The work will be stored and is to be collected from the Replica Shoes ’s Greenford Park Warehouse. Please refer to the online Conditions of Business for further information.

Sotheby's, London, December 8th-9th, 1986, no 243, illus.

Published

Sotheby's, London, December 10th-11th, 1984, no. 270, illus.

The herm belongs to a series, of which three other identical examples are known: one in the Musei Capitolini (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/40002), another in the Villa Medici (A. Cecchi, C. Gasparri, Le collezioni del cardinale Ferdinando, La Villa Médicis, vol. 4, 2009, p. 354, no. 602.56), a third, sawn apart in modern times, in the Palazzo Rospigliosi: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/1048626; http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/1048628