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Roman Head of a Male Deity, Perhaps Aristaeus

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About the Artwork

Aristaeus was the divine son of the god Apollo and the nymph Cyrene. He was known in the ancient world as the founder and patron deity of the city of Cyrene in Libya, a Greek colony in North Africa. This head, from a colossal statue, portrays the god with a rather bland face surrounded by tousled asymmetrical curls, which are given dramatic life by being carved in high relief. On Aristaeus's head is a mural crown—a round flat-topped headdress with four vertical raised strips, perhaps intended to represent the defensive towers of the city walls. The enormous statue could have stood in a temple in Cyrene dedicated to Aristaeus.

Roman Head of a Male Deity, Perhaps Aristaeus

2nd century CE

(Artist) Greek (Artist) Roman

Marble

Overall: 24 × 14 × 16 inches (61 × 35.6 × 40.6 cm)

Sculpture

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

41.9

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(Joseph Brummer);
1941-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Bulletin of the DIA 20, no. 8 (1941): p. 73 (ill.).

"An Obsession With Fortune: Tyche In Greek And Roman Art." Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): no. 35, p. 113 (ill. fig.14), p. 29; p. 28, note 48 p. 33.

A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts, ed. Julia P. Henshaw. Detroit, 1995, p. 112 (ill.).

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Roman; after Greek, Roman Head of a Male Deity, Perhaps Aristaeus, 2nd century CE, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 41.9.

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