Sleeping Hermaphroditus
Microasiatic marble.Roman copy of the mid-2nd cent. CE after a bronze original of the Asia Minor of the mid-2nd cent. BCE. Inv. No. 1087.Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle TermePhoto by Ilya Shurygin
Sleeping Hermaphroditus.
Microasiatic marble.
Roman copy of the mid-2nd cent. CE after a bronze original of the Asia Minor of the mid-2nd cent. BCE.
Roman copy of the mid-2nd cent. CE after a bronze original of the Asia Minor of the mid-2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 1087.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
(Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme).
Origin:
Rome, excavations of a domus under Teatro dell’Opera, 1879.
Literature:
KATHARINE T. VON STACKELBERG. Garden Hybrids: Hermaphrodite Images in the Roman House.
Classical Antiquity. 2014, Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 395–426. https://www.academia.edu/11330013/Garden_Hybrids_Hermaphrodite_Images_in_the_Roman_House?email_work_card=view-paper
Classical Antiquity. 2014, Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 395–426. https://www.academia.edu/11330013/Garden_Hybrids_Hermaphrodite_Images_in_the_Roman_House?email_work_card=view-paper
Credits:
© 2015. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Info: museum annotation.
Info: museum annotation.
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