CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

As K. Karoglou informs (p. 12 in "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2010-2012," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 70, no. 2), depictions of the young Dionysus enjoyed a resurgent popularity during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117-138 A.D.) and that such under life-sized figures most probably served a decorative rather than votive function. For a similar example but with the nebris knotted over the god’s right shoulder, compare the figure from Hadrian’s Villa, now in the Museo Nazionale Romano, no. 5 in C. Gasparri, “Dionysos/Bacchus,” LIMC, vol. III. See also a statue in Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (no. 3174 in P. Arndt and W. Amelung, eds., Photographische Einzelaufnahmen Antiker Sculpturen) and one in New York of similar scale (Karoglou, op. cit.).