This headless seated male figure is identified as Dionysos owing to the strands of long hair that fall on its shoulders. He may also originally have worn a garland of ivy. His Hellenistic style makes him a latter day version of the reclining Dionysus on the east pediment of the Parthenon.
He is called ‘Farnese’ after the Farnese collection to which he belonged — one of the most important antiquities collections in Rome. This collection has moved and today is housed in Naples
Number:
339
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Naples, National Museum 295
Size:
1.00m
References:
Ruesch: Guide to the National Museum, Naples, 97
Brunn-Bruckmann: Denkmäler Griechischer und Römischer Skulptur, pl. 300
Date:
Early Hellenistic
