Lot 255
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A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN BRONZE BALSAMARIUM IN THE FORM OF A BUST OF ANTINOUS
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A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN BRONZE BALSAMARIUM IN THE FORM OF A BUST OF ANTINOUS

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D., EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

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A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN BRONZE BALSAMARIUM IN THE FORM OF A BUST OF ANTINOUS
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D., EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
The youth with hair arranged in layered corkscrew curls, wearing a broad fillet and a necklet with crescentic pendant, gazing downward with incised pupils and well defined upper eyelids, a hinge for a lid (now missing) at back of head, an attachment loop on left side of fillet and the vessel's opening in the crown of the head, mounted
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Cf. S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, The British Museum, London, 1997, pp. 192-193, no. 262 for a similar vessel wearing a crescentic necklet. Many of these vessels portray the Emperor Hadrian's favourite, Antinous.

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