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The differentiation of the Sky-god's faces 387
(t) The differentiation of the Sky-god's faces.
Secondly, the two faces of the bifrontal deity are often differ-
entiated. And this differentiation may vary much in its degree.
Boreas, as we have just seen1, had two bearded profiles, one dark,
the other light. Argos on the kratcr from Ruvo2 and Ianus (?)
on the Roman sard3 joined a bearded to a beardless visage. The
Fig. 295.
result was a piquant contrast, which acquired a certain popularity.
Thus a double herm to be seen in the Museo Capitolino at Rome4
combines a bearded with a beardless Dionysos. Another, a work of
Augustan date now in the Vatican, links a would-be archaic with
a Hellenistic head of Silenos (fig. 295)5. Or again, two heads are
1 Supra p. 380 f. fig. 288. s Supra p. 379 f. fig. 287.
3 Supra p. 385 fig. 293.
4 Stuart Jones Cat. Sculpt. Mus. Capit. Rome p. 144 no. 14 pi. 34, G. Bottari // Museo
Capitolino Roma 1750 i Animadversiones pi. 6, 2 (facing p. 18). Height ro85m to base
of shaft, which does not belong to the heads. Luna marble. The nose of the unbearded
head and a lock of hair by its left ear have been restored.
A bronze in the Museum at Cassel shows a nude youth of effeminate aspect holding
an adze (?) in his lowered right hand and a Janiform amulet in his raised left hand : the
little figure has a beardless face in front, a bearded face behind (Gerhard Etr. Spiegel i. 40
pi. 13, 5 f., id. Ant. Bildzv. pi. 303, 4 f., Reinach Rip. Stat. ii. 176 no. 9 'Hermaphro-
dite?'). Gerhard Etr. Spiegel i. 40 pi. 13, 2—4 cp. a bronze amulet, acquired by him in
Rome, which unites the face of a child with that of a lion.
5 E. Pistolesi // Vaticano Descritto ed Illustrato Roma 1829 iv. 141 pi. 55, 1 ( = my
fig. 295), A. Nibby in F. A. Visconti—G. A. Guattani Museo Chiaramonti aggiunto al
Pio-Clementino da N. S. Pio vn P. M. Roma 1843 'u pl« 9> A. Furtwangler in the Ann.
d. Inst. 1877 xlix. 199 n. 1 and 234 f. ( = id. Kleine Schriften Miinchen 1912 i. 145 n. 2
and 173), Helbig Guide Class. Ant. Rome i. 44 no. 75, Amelung Sculpt. Vatic, i. 461 f.
no. 229 pi. 47. Height o'365m. Yellowish marble of fine grain.
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(t) The differentiation of the Sky-god's faces.
Secondly, the two faces of the bifrontal deity are often differ-
entiated. And this differentiation may vary much in its degree.
Boreas, as we have just seen1, had two bearded profiles, one dark,
the other light. Argos on the kratcr from Ruvo2 and Ianus (?)
on the Roman sard3 joined a bearded to a beardless visage. The
Fig. 295.
result was a piquant contrast, which acquired a certain popularity.
Thus a double herm to be seen in the Museo Capitolino at Rome4
combines a bearded with a beardless Dionysos. Another, a work of
Augustan date now in the Vatican, links a would-be archaic with
a Hellenistic head of Silenos (fig. 295)5. Or again, two heads are
1 Supra p. 380 f. fig. 288. s Supra p. 379 f. fig. 287.
3 Supra p. 385 fig. 293.
4 Stuart Jones Cat. Sculpt. Mus. Capit. Rome p. 144 no. 14 pi. 34, G. Bottari // Museo
Capitolino Roma 1750 i Animadversiones pi. 6, 2 (facing p. 18). Height ro85m to base
of shaft, which does not belong to the heads. Luna marble. The nose of the unbearded
head and a lock of hair by its left ear have been restored.
A bronze in the Museum at Cassel shows a nude youth of effeminate aspect holding
an adze (?) in his lowered right hand and a Janiform amulet in his raised left hand : the
little figure has a beardless face in front, a bearded face behind (Gerhard Etr. Spiegel i. 40
pi. 13, 5 f., id. Ant. Bildzv. pi. 303, 4 f., Reinach Rip. Stat. ii. 176 no. 9 'Hermaphro-
dite?'). Gerhard Etr. Spiegel i. 40 pi. 13, 2—4 cp. a bronze amulet, acquired by him in
Rome, which unites the face of a child with that of a lion.
5 E. Pistolesi // Vaticano Descritto ed Illustrato Roma 1829 iv. 141 pi. 55, 1 ( = my
fig. 295), A. Nibby in F. A. Visconti—G. A. Guattani Museo Chiaramonti aggiunto al
Pio-Clementino da N. S. Pio vn P. M. Roma 1843 'u pl« 9> A. Furtwangler in the Ann.
d. Inst. 1877 xlix. 199 n. 1 and 234 f. ( = id. Kleine Schriften Miinchen 1912 i. 145 n. 2
and 173), Helbig Guide Class. Ant. Rome i. 44 no. 75, Amelung Sculpt. Vatic, i. 461 f.
no. 229 pi. 47. Height o'365m. Yellowish marble of fine grain.
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