A ROMAN GIALLO ANTICO HERM HEAD OF SILENUS

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GIALLO ANTICO HERM HEAD OF SILENUS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Well-modelled with bald pate encircled by a garland of ivy and berries, a single lock of hair at the crown of his head, the fillet crossing his forehead, its ties falling along each shoulder, the end of one with an emblem in relief, with leaves and berries above each temple, the lidded unarticulated eyes deeply set under the furrowed brow, with snub nose, downturned moustache, open mouth and full wavy beard, the individual locks deeply drilled
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high

来源

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10-11 July 1989, lot 235.
Anonymous sale; Hesperia Arts Auction, Ltd., New York, 27 November 1990, part I, lot 81.

拍品专文

Giallo Antico, also known as marmor Numidicum, was quarried in the hills of the Medjerda valley around Chemtou in Tunisia. Widely used in Imperial and private projects in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D., this stone was considered a precious marble, "deemed synonymous with wealth" (Anderson and Nista, eds., Radiance in Stone, Sculptures in Colored Marble from the Museo Nazionale Romano, p. 74).