A ROMAN MARBLE JANIFORM HERM

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE JANIFORM HERM
Circa 1st Century A.D.
One side with a head of a maenad, with large almond-shaped eyes, her mouth somewhat smiling, wearing a fillet of ivy and berries in her center-parted hair, which cascades in thick strands on her forehead; the other side with a bearded head of Dionysus, his spade-shaped beard with wavy locks, a thin cleft dividing the beard, with a wide flaring mustache which flows into the beard, his wavy locks center parted, a crescentic diadem in his hair, with grape vines on the sides of his head
3¾ in. (9.5 cm) high

Lot Essay

For a series of two sided herm heads of similar style from Pompeii, see no. 41, pp. 49-51 in Vermeule and Comstock, Sculpture in Stone and Bronze, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Additions to the Collections of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art 1971-1988.

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