A Marble Torso of Narcissus or Ganymede, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.

leaning to his left with his legs crossed, and wearing a chlamys fastened with a brooch on his right shoulder, draped over the left shoulder, and wrapped around the left forearm, locks of hair falling over the back of the right shoulder.

Drouot Richelieu, Paris, Archéologie - Art précolombien - Extrême-Orient, Yves de Cagny, Commissaire-priseur, February 13th, 1997, no. 57, cover illus.

As shown. Surface repolished and waxed. Remains of a puntello on proper left hip.
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For a very closely related statue of a youth leaning on a tree-trunk drilled for a waterspout see W. Amelung, Die Sculpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, vol. I, 1, Berlin, 1903, p. 56, no. 38B, pl. 5 (Comte de Clarac, Musée de sculpture antique et moderne, vol. III, Paris, 1850, pl. 407, no. 703; S. Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. I, Paris, 1906, p. 191, no. 1); this fountain figure is variously identified as Narcissus or Ganymede, and was found in 1800 in the caldarium of a bath building at Ostia, within a niche decorated with mosaic.