A Roman Marble Head of the Young Dionysos, circa early 2nd century A.D.

turned to this left, his centrally parted hair tied in a chignon and bound in a wreath of ivy leaves and berries, the underside of the neck prepared in modern times for attachment to a bust or statue.

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. C., Paris, acquired in or before the 1970s

As shown, some ivy leaves and berries fragmentary/chipped, possible re-cutting in area below proper left temple, various chips, scratches, and abrasions overall, nose break was smoothed to receive a marble restoration (hole for iron pin is now plugged), underside of neck smoothed in modern times to make the head fit onto a bust or statue, also modern is the small hole drilled into the proper right side of the neck, it was presumably intended to secure the head to a new neck.
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