Villa gardens and peristyles (courtyards) were filled with images of Dionysos and woodland creatures from his entourage. Pan, the goat god, appears here in his usual form as a shaggy-haired, bearded man with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat. His back is bent under the weight of a vessel or wineskin once held on his left shoulder. The statue was probably designed as part of a fountain complex with water gushing from the now-missing container.
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Title:Marble statue of Pan
Period:Imperial
Date:1st century CE
Culture:Roman
Medium:Marble
Dimensions:H. 26 5/8 in. (67.6 cm)
Classification:Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1992
Object Number:1992.11.71
19th and early 20th century, European private collection and market; [late 1970s, London market]; [until 1982, with Robin Symes]; 1982, purchased by Mrs. Barbara Johnson through Sotheby’s New York; 1982-1992, collection of Mrs. Barbara Johnson, Princeton, New Jersey; acquired in December 1992, purchased through Sotheby's, New York.
Sotheby's, New York. 1982. Fine Classical, Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities. May 20, 1982. lot 142.
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von Bothmer, Dietrich, Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, and Elizabeth J. Milleker. 1993. "Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1992–1993." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 51(2): p. 15.
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Marquardt, Nathalie. 1995. Pan in der Hellenistischen und Kaiserzeitlichen Plastik. pp. 266–7, pl. 26.4, Bonn: Habelt.
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Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 434, pp. 373, 490, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Zanker, Paul, Seán Hemingway, Christopher S. Lightfoot, and Joan R. Mertens. 2019. Roman Art : A Guide through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection. no. 49, p. 145, New York: Scala Publishers.
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