Head of a Young Satyr

late 1st century

10 cm 15.3 cm 10.2 cm

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Two small horns grow from the satyr's forehead, his ears are pointed like a goat's, and he wears a garland over his short, unruly locks. The head was once part of a larger work, perhaps a herm (a bust mounted on a square post). Statues and herms of satyrs were commonly found a...

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Arthur Sambon, Paris; Sambon Sale, Paris, 1914, p. 21, no. 72 and 1929, no. 19, plate X; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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