Herm bust of Dionysos
1st or 2nd century A.D.
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Carrara in northwest Italy
DimensionsHeight: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Credit LineThe Benjamin and Lucy Rowland Fund, Gift of E. D. B. Vermeule, and Gift of Earle W. Carr
Accession number1979.523
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Larz Anderson Collection, Brookline, Mass. (said to have been acquired in Italy after the Civil War); Isabel Anderson Collection, Brookline Mass.; by about 1949: Earle W. Carr Collection (who said in 1979 that he acquired it from the collection of Larz and Isabel Anderson about 30 years ago); purchased by MFA from Earle W. Carr, November 14, 1979
late 1st century B.C. – 1st century A.D.
1st–2nd century A.D.
2nd century A.D. or 19th century
1st–2nd century A.D.
30 B.C.–A.D. 70
1st–2nd century A.D.
late 2nd century A.D., based on Hellenistic Greek work of 2nd century B.C.
probably first half of the 1st century B.C.
about A.D. 125–175
