A ROMAN MARBLE STATUE OF SEILENOS

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A ROMAN MARBLE STATUE OF SEILENOS
Late 2nd Century A.D., after a Greek original of 4th Century B.C., with Eighteenth Century lower legs and base

Standing with weight on his left foot, carrying a liknon or flat basket filled with fruit on his head, wearing a wreath of ivy and berries and a mantle wrapped around his waist which is knotted in front, with deeply drilled beard, the support in the form of a stump, repaired
48in. (122cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. C. C. Vermeule et al, Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1977, p. 17, no. 21 for a similar head. Also, cf. M. Wyndham, Catalogue of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Posession of Lord Leconfield, London, 1915, pp. 86-87, no. 54 for a complete statue. The most famous Seileni of this type were found along the canal or Euripus at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, cf. S. Aurigemma, Villa Adriana, Rome, 1961, pp. 100-133

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