CIRCA LATE 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.

细节

A ROMAN BRONZE PANTHEISTIC DEITY
Circa Late 1st-Early 2nd Century A.D.
In the form of a muscular youthful male with upraised wings, nude but for a mantle draped over his left shoulder, wearing high boots, the god standing in contrapposto with his head turned to his right and slightly lowered, holding Zeus' thunderbolt in his lowered right hand, and a now-missing attribute in his left hand, Apollo's quiver on his right shoulder, his high-crested helmet centered in the front by a crescent surmounted by an Egyptianizing solar crown with plumes, the crescent flanked on either side by a tall plume and two rays
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm) high

来源

Cook Collection, England

拍品专文

Described in a letter by Dr. Lodovico Pollak, dated August 16, 1941, who states that the figure was found in the lagoon of Venice. The presence of marine incrustations supports this claim.

For a related pantheistic deity in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery see no. 279 in Canciani, "Iuppiter" in LIMC. The Birmingham deity differs in that he holds a caduceus in one hand, a cornucopia topped with a bust of Minerva in the other, and the plume of the helmet is surmounted by a bust of Zeus. Compare also the bronze statue of a Genius from Weissenburg, no. 13 in Kellner and Zahlhaas, Der Römische Tempelschatz von Weissenburg i. Bay. The Weissenburg figure holds a thunderbolt and cornucopia. In place of a helmet he wears a crenellated crown but with a similar crest.