Roman double headed Herm, with Dionysus and bearded Silen

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

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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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