A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF DIONYSUS

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF DIONYSUS
circa 2nd century a.d.
The youthful god standing with his weight on his right leg, his left leg slightly advanced and bent at the knee, his right hip thrust to the side, his torso softly modeled, tresses of hair falling on his shoulders, a strut behind the right leg for attachment to a support, a large depression between the shoulders for insertion of the head, the now-missing left arm originally separately made
31 in. (79.4 cm.) high

Exhibited

Antikenmuseum Leipzig, September 1996-October 1998

Lot Essay

For a similar torso of Dionysus at the Antikenmuseum in Basel, see figs. 17-19 in Stewart, "Dionysus at Delphi: The Pediments of the Sixth Temple of Apollo and Religious Reform in the Age of Alexander" in Barr-Sharrar, ed., Macedonia and Greece in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Times.