A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF PRIAPUS
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF PRIAPUS

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF PRIAPUS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Probably from a herm, in archaising style, wearing a large foliate wreath in his hair, with long wavy moustache, striated beard, and heavy-lidded almond-shaped eyes
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high
來源
with Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, December 1989.

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Die Sammlung Hubertus und Renate Wald Hamburg, Hamburg, 1998, pp. 178-179.

Thought to be the son of Venus and Bacchus, Priapus was a deity of fertility often placed in gardens to ensure fruitfulness. In the Roman period he came to be associated with Pan and Sylvanus and the phallic rites of Bacchic rituals. For similar archaistic heads cf. W.-R. Megow, 'Priapus', LIMC VIII, 1997, p. 1038, nos 131 and 132.

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