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Lot 23

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$15,000 - 20,000
Price Realized
$72,500
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A Roman Marble Janiform Herm Head CIRCA LATE 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY C.E. each side depicting a bearded male deity with a severe Classicizing countenance, likely Neptune, Jupiter or Dionysus, with a long spade-shaped beard formed of individual locks curling at their ends and a downturned mustache, his center-parted hair pulled back, bound behind and falling in thick straight tresses along his neck, the middle-aged countenance with thickly-lidded large almond-shaped eyes unarticulated, drilled at their inner canthi, the lips outlined, the brows likely once painted, now slightly discolored, one side with extensive drillwork, the other side almost identical but left undrilled, perhaps unfinished, possibly representing an earlier style. Height 13 1/2 inches.

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