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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Etruscan and Roman Antiquities > Art from Southern Italy... > Portrait of Antinoüs
Portrait of Antinoüs
Artist : Anonyme

Model : Antinoüs

Date : approx. between 130 and 138

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Gift of Bronson Pinchor (1996)
Dynastie des Antonins
Item 66 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Sculpture (Tête)

Vitrine : V04

Area related
Empire romain


Description   

Antinoüs, the young favorite of the Emperor Hadrian, drowned mysteriously in the Nile in A.D. 122 and became object of a cult.
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