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| ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF OF A DIOSKOUROS From a sarcophagus probably depicting the hunt of Meleager, the young deity with parted lips and long wavy hair surmounted by a pilos, his eyes with recessed pupils. For a closely related head of a Dioskouros from a fragmentary Meleager hunt sarcophagus in the Liebieghaus Museum, Frankfurt, see G. Koch, Die Mythologischen Sarkophage, sechster Teil: Meleager (Die antiken Sarkophag-reliefs, vol. 12), Berlin, 1975, pls. 47 and 48. Ex Jean Marais (1913-1998), Paris and Cannes, Drouot, Paris, Fraysse & Associés. Ca. AD 230-260 H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2011, no. 18 SNF100 $37,500 Sales |
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