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PLATE XXV.
BUST OF ANTINOUS.
A colossal bust of Antinous, in the character of Iacchos, or
the youthful Bacchus, crowned with a wreath of ivy. The action
of this head, inclined to the earth, is like that of the statues of
Bacchus standing and holding a thyrsus in one hand erect, and in
the other a cantharus by one handle, spilling the wine to a panther
at his feet, at which animal the god looks. The physiognomy has
the full round face of a statue almost ideal, and expresses the
sadness and grave melancholy which are generally characteristic
of the busts of Antinous. The heads of Antinous are not rare :
and excellent specimens of them are preserved in the different
galleries of Europe, especially in the Museo Borbonico.(1) The
one before us is one of the finest remaining representations of this
subject, and is evidently a pourtrait. The ivy crown has relation
to Bacchus.
Many pourtraits of Antinous are preserved on the coins of
the period in which he lived—especially on those of the province,
Bithynia, of Bithynium, Adramyttium, Smyrna, and Alexandria—
and on the class called Contorniates. A similar head appears
also crowned with ivy on a coin inscribed ANTINOH IIANI,
struck at some unknown locality, from which we may infer that
Antinous was sometimes represented in the same manner as Pan.(2)
1 Museo Borbonico, No. 114. Clarac, 946, No. 2429. Visconti, Museo Pio Clem.
PI. 39, Nos. 2, 3.
2 Cimel. Vind. II. p. 6.
BUST OF ANTINOUS.
A colossal bust of Antinous, in the character of Iacchos, or
the youthful Bacchus, crowned with a wreath of ivy. The action
of this head, inclined to the earth, is like that of the statues of
Bacchus standing and holding a thyrsus in one hand erect, and in
the other a cantharus by one handle, spilling the wine to a panther
at his feet, at which animal the god looks. The physiognomy has
the full round face of a statue almost ideal, and expresses the
sadness and grave melancholy which are generally characteristic
of the busts of Antinous. The heads of Antinous are not rare :
and excellent specimens of them are preserved in the different
galleries of Europe, especially in the Museo Borbonico.(1) The
one before us is one of the finest remaining representations of this
subject, and is evidently a pourtrait. The ivy crown has relation
to Bacchus.
Many pourtraits of Antinous are preserved on the coins of
the period in which he lived—especially on those of the province,
Bithynia, of Bithynium, Adramyttium, Smyrna, and Alexandria—
and on the class called Contorniates. A similar head appears
also crowned with ivy on a coin inscribed ANTINOH IIANI,
struck at some unknown locality, from which we may infer that
Antinous was sometimes represented in the same manner as Pan.(2)
1 Museo Borbonico, No. 114. Clarac, 946, No. 2429. Visconti, Museo Pio Clem.
PI. 39, Nos. 2, 3.
2 Cimel. Vind. II. p. 6.