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A Roman Giallo Antico Marble Herm Bust of Attis, 1st/2nd Century A.D.
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- A Roman Giallo Antico Marble Herm Bust of Attis
- marble
- Height 19 cm.
his youthful face with prominent chin, parted lips, and eyes recessed for inlay, his hair surmounted by a Phrygian cap with flaps tied up in a fragmentary knot over the crown of the head and falling over the shoulders, two thick curls over the forehead and a comma shaped lock before each ear; no restorations, the lower front edge recarved and the eyes inlaid in modern times.
Provenance
once mounted on a circa-1870 Belgian clock
Belgian private collection, acquired with the clock in the late 1960s (Galerie Athena, Brussels, June 2016, no. 1140)
Belgian private collection, acquired with the clock in the late 1960s (Galerie Athena, Brussels, June 2016, no. 1140)
Catalogue Note
For a related example see Berlin, Antikensammlung, inv. no. Sk 81 (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/105843).