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A RARE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ZAGREUS-DIONYSOS
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A RARE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ZAGREUS-DIONYSOS

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A RARE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ZAGREUS-DIONYSOS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The mummiform figure bound with decorated bandages, the youthful head with curling hair, tresses falling down onto both shoulders, wearing a vine/ivy-wreath fillet with two horns(?) above, mounted
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Wilhelm Horn (1870-1959).
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Lot Essay

The divine child, Zagreus-Dionysos, was dismembered by the Titans and brought back to life again by Pallas-Athene after undergoing a period of 'mummification'. As with Osiris, the Egyptian god with whom he is sometimes associated, Zagreus-Dionysos represents a god of death, transformation and rebirth. Plutarch writes: he is "...the god who is destroyed, who disappears, who relinquishes life and then is born again".

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