Sleeping Hermaphroditus
Parian 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. 172.Rome, Museum and Gallery of Villa Borghese, Room VPhoto by Ilya Shurygin

Sleeping Hermaphroditus.

Parian 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. 172.

Rome, Museum and Gallery of Villa Borghese, Room V
(Roma, Museo e Galleria di Villa Borghese, Sala V).

Origin:
Rome, presumably the area of S. Maria della Vittoria.
Literature:
P. Moreno, Ch. Stefani. The Borghese Gallery. Touring Club, Milan. 2015. P. 146.

KATHARINE T. VON STACKELBERG. Garden Hybrids: Hermaphrodite Images in the Roman House.
Classical Antiquity. 2014, Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 395–426.
Credits:
© 2017. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
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