Sleeping Hermaphroditus
Parian marble.
Roman copy of the 1st—2nd cent. CE after a late Hellenistic original of the 2nd—1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 343.Florence, Uffizi GalleryPhoto by Ilya Shurygin

Sleeping Hermaphroditus.

Parian marble.
Roman copy of the 1st—2nd cent. CE after a late Hellenistic original of the 2nd—1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 343.

Florence, Uffizi Gallery
(Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi).

Private collection, Ludovisi.
Origin:
From the Ludovisi collection in Rome. It was purchased in 1669 by Grand Duke Ferdinando II for the Gallery.
Literature:
KATHARINE T. VON STACKELBERG. Garden Hybrids: Hermaphrodite Images in the Roman House.
Classical Antiquity. 2014, Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 395–426.
Credits:
© 2019. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Info: museum annotation.
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