A GREEK CRYSTALLINE MARBLE TORSO OF A YOUTHFUL SATYR(?), nude apart from a nebris hanging down over his right shoulder, with sensitively modelled stomach and thighs, he stands with weight on his left hip (upper part of left leg and lower right restored), Graeco-Roman, circa 1st Century B.C.

A GREEK CRYSTALLINE MARBLE TORSO OF A YOUTHFUL SATYR(?), nude apart from a nebris hanging down over his right shoulder, with sensitively modelled stomach and thighs, he stands with weight on his left hip (upper part of left leg and lower right restored), Graeco-Roman, circa 1st Century B.C.

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A GREEK CRYSTALLINE MARBLE TORSO OF A YOUTHFUL SATYR(?), nude apart from a nebris hanging down over his right shoulder, with sensitively modelled stomach and thighs, he stands with weight on his left hip (upper part of left leg and lower right restored), Graeco-Roman, circa 1st Century B.C.
15in. (38.1cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner's grandfather at the turn of the century

Exhibited

Kestner Museum, Hanover, 1984-1995

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