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Osiris-Antinous
Tin-glazed earthenware; a pair with C.2388B-1928
Buff earthenware, press-moulded with separate base, tin-glazed overall. Osiris-Antinous stands erect on a rectangular plinth with a support at the back. His knees are together, his feet facing the front are slight apart; his hands are clenched round small batons. He wears an Egyptian striped nemes headdress and a pleated kilt. There is a square cavity in the back of the figure above the waist.
History note: Uncertain before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, ambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 117.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
Circa
1790
CE
-
Circa
1820
CE
French or Italian. One of a pair representing Antinous in the form of Osiris. In 130 BC Hadrian’s young lover, Antinous, drowned in the Nile. In death he became Osiris-Antinous and was worshipped as the Dead Antinous. His cult statues showed a youth in the guise of an Egyptian king, wearing a nemes headcloth, sometimes with the royal or divine uraeus, and wearing an Egyptian kilt. This pottery figure and its pair were derived from two Roman originals in the Vatican Museum
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded and tin-glazed
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2388A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73425
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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