1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D., AFTER A LATE HELLENISTIC ORIGINAL

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A GRAECO-ROMAN MARBLE DYAD OF PRIAPUS EMBRACING A MAENAD
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D., AFTER A LATE HELLENISTIC ORIGINAL
The himation clad figure of Priapus with left arm around the maenad's shoulders, the maenad wearing an animal skin, its head across her chest, her chiton falls to expose one breast, her right hand placed around Priapus's lower back, mounted
5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in the 1970s.

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Lot Essay

The identification is based on a Graeco-Roman statue in Berlin which shows the head of the maenad, found before 1872 on the Quirinal near the Piazza Barberini, and a second in the National Museum at Athens where the head of Priapus is preserved. Cf. M. B. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, The Greek, Roman and Etruscan collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, 1976, p. 127, no. 196, for a similar Graeco-Roman group.

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