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PLATE XXXVIII.
BACCHUS.
A small statue of Bacchus, represented as a boy of five or six
years old. The head is crowned with a wreath of ivy,(1) and the
body partially covered with the skin of a faun, whence he obtained
the title of nfigidotrroXog :(2) the legs of this faun are tied across his
breast. In his right hand, which is raised above his head, is a
bunch of grapes, and in his left hand there is a small cup or
patera. In all probability the right hand originally held a thyrsus.
The limbs have the roundness and delicacy of contour particularly
characteristic of the forms of the female sex, agreeably with the
usual description of this god in ancient writers.(3)
Statues of Bacchus, almost the same with the one before us,
are not uncommon in the collections of Europe, and Clarac has
published several that may be compared with it.(4) Among
these we do not, however, notice any one actually identical
1 Feruutquc primum omnium Libcrum patrem imposuisse capiti suo ex hedera.—
Plin. xvi. c. 4.
Hedera, ve mollcm
Baccifera. rcligare frontem.—Senec. (Ed. v. 413.
--Jacchus
Crinali florens hedera--
Claud, de Eapt. Pros. i. 16.
2 Nt/3pi8o'(TroXoc.—Orph. Hymn., 52, v. 10.
3 Bacchus muliebri et delicato corpore pingitur.—Isidor, Orig. viii. c. i.
4 Clarac, PI. 674, Nos. 1561, 1564, 1567, for small statues in the Vescovali,
Guastaldi or Demidoff collections j PI. 687, No. 1608, for a statue of Bacchus with the
nebris in the Dresden collection.
BACCHUS.
A small statue of Bacchus, represented as a boy of five or six
years old. The head is crowned with a wreath of ivy,(1) and the
body partially covered with the skin of a faun, whence he obtained
the title of nfigidotrroXog :(2) the legs of this faun are tied across his
breast. In his right hand, which is raised above his head, is a
bunch of grapes, and in his left hand there is a small cup or
patera. In all probability the right hand originally held a thyrsus.
The limbs have the roundness and delicacy of contour particularly
characteristic of the forms of the female sex, agreeably with the
usual description of this god in ancient writers.(3)
Statues of Bacchus, almost the same with the one before us,
are not uncommon in the collections of Europe, and Clarac has
published several that may be compared with it.(4) Among
these we do not, however, notice any one actually identical
1 Feruutquc primum omnium Libcrum patrem imposuisse capiti suo ex hedera.—
Plin. xvi. c. 4.
Hedera, ve mollcm
Baccifera. rcligare frontem.—Senec. (Ed. v. 413.
--Jacchus
Crinali florens hedera--
Claud, de Eapt. Pros. i. 16.
2 Nt/3pi8o'(TroXoc.—Orph. Hymn., 52, v. 10.
3 Bacchus muliebri et delicato corpore pingitur.—Isidor, Orig. viii. c. i.
4 Clarac, PI. 674, Nos. 1561, 1564, 1567, for small statues in the Vescovali,
Guastaldi or Demidoff collections j PI. 687, No. 1608, for a statue of Bacchus with the
nebris in the Dresden collection.