A Marble Head of Silvanus, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D.

with full beard and crescentic moustache, his hair swept up above the forehead and surmounted by a wreath of sheaves of wheat.

English private collection, late 19th Century

Good and as shown, note chips on nose and top of wreath, surface somewhat weathered, minor abrasions.
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The present head was until recently mounted on an alien but ancient nude marble bust with turned socle and palmette in relief on the plinth.

For a statuette of Silvanus with closely related head in the National Museum, Warsaw, see "Silvanus," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. VII.2, 1994, p. 551, no. 11.