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Head of Dionysus, frontal view. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Head of Dionysus
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 267
- Date
- 3rd C. AD, Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4096
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4096
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx59.064
- Material
- Limestone, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure
- Site
- Ödemiş
- Findspot
- Said to come from Ödemiş.
- Description
A horizontal diadem is worn across the top of the forehead. The hair is long and wavy, with ivy and grape bunches, crudely modeled, and with occasional drill holes. At the back the hair is flat. The inner corners of the eyes and pupils are drilled. The eyelids are heavy.
The linear style of carving, especially of diadem and hair, and drill holes suggest a date in the 3rd C. A.D., perhaps late in the century.
- Condition
Hard, yellow-brown local stone, limestone?
Broken at neck; lower l. part of face split off, upper l. sawed off.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.125.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR