Marble head of a god, probably Dionysos
The style of this head looks back to early Greek sculpture known as Archaic. Dionysos was the male deity most commonly archaized in Hellenistic and Roman times. The old-fashioned style lent an air of venerable antiquity to the image of the god and implied the long history of his cult.
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