CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

The slender and youthful figure would have originally been standing with his weight on his right leg, his left leg relaxed, his right arm pulled back with the hand originally resting on the back of his hips. A nearly identical torso with re-attached original head is in Harvard University's Sackler Museum. The type exists in several Roman copies, all thought to be based on a funerary monument in the tradition of Polykleitos of circa 430 B.C. The type has also been traditionally identified as Narcissus while others suggest the figure comes from a group representing the hunter Adonis. For the Harvard torso, see no. 19 in C. C. Vermeule and A. Bauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museum, 1990.