Antinoos - New York City, NY
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Metro2
N 40° 46.720 W 073° 57.767
18T E 587523 N 4514704
This sculpture is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WMKK45
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
Views: 4

This life-sized marble bust of the Antinoos depicts him as a young man with curly hair and a bit chubby-faced. The piece is damaged.
Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"Antinous (also Antinoüs or Antinoös; Ancient Greek: ??t?????; 27 November, c. 111 – before 30 October 130[1]) was a Bithynian Greek youth and a favourite of the Roman emperor Hadrian.[2] He was divinized after his death, being worshiped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god (theos) and sometimes merely as a divinized mortal (heros).

Little is known of Antinous' life, although it is known that he was born in Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia. He likely was introduced to Hadrian in 123, before being taken to Italy for a higher education. He had become the favourite of Hadrian by 128, when he was taken on a tour of the Empire as part of Hadrian's personal retinue."
URL of the statue: Not listed

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