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Roman double headed Herm, with Dionysus and bearded Silen

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An image of Double Headed Herm, with heads of Dionysos and Bearded Silen. Luna marble, carved, height 0.28 m, width, base, 0.11 m, depth, base, 0.12 m, width, overall max, 0.17 m, depth, overall max, 0.185 m. Production Place: Italy. Early Roman period, AD 1-200.

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Double Headed Herm, with heads of Dionysos and Bearded Silen. Luna marble, carved, height 0.28 m, width, base, 0.11 m, depth, base, 0.12 m, width, overall max, 0.17 m, depth, overall max, 0.185 m. Production Place: Italy. Early Roman period, AD 1-200.

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  • Accession Number: GR.20.1850
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/29.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 683 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 96.25kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 29/1
  • Captured: 2008:12:04 21:22:52

Key words

2nd Century AD antiquity bearded beards carved curls curly Dionysos Dionysus double double sided Early Roman faces Fitz_ANT gods grapes head heads herm Italian male marble Roman sculpture Silenus two sided two-faced vine leaves vines

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rgb(29,29,30), rgb(206,192,169), rgb(82,78,76), rgb(103,102,107), rgb(166,141,100), rgb(137,105,59), rgb(244,229,202), rgb(149,148,149), rgb(246,241,228), rgb(132,131,135), rgb(68,76,76)

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