A ROMAN GIALLO ANTICO HERM HEAD OF PAPOSILENUS

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GIALLO ANTICO HERM HEAD OF PAPOSILENUS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Sculpted with a dynamic expression, his thick mustache and beard with deeply-carved radiating curls, his smiling lips parted, his cheeks prominent, his recessed eyes deeply set, likely once inlaid, the furrowed m-shaped brow overhanging, further articulated with drilling, his large smooth forehead adorned with a wreath of ivy and berry clusters, with a bald pate, wispy locks brushed forward, fillet ties falling along his shoulders, incised tufts on his chest
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Provenance

with Bruce Rogers, San Francisco, 1971.

Literature

S. Medford, "Hail Fellow Well Met", Town & Country, November 1996, p. 182.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example, see no. 87 in De Nuccio and Ungaro, I marmi colorati della Roma imperiale; for a similar example in marble, see no. 95, pl. 32 in Budde and Nicholls, A Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.

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