UK_618 Marble bust of Antinous AD 130-138
Marble bust of Antinous AD 130-138, Found in Rome Antinous was Hadrian's lover. He was in his mid-teens (the normal Roman marrying age) when he met the Emperor in the 120s AD. After his mysterious death in the Nile in AD 130, Hadrian publicly mourned him. He erected shrines and statutes of him as a youth, man and even as a god - the Greek Dionysos or the Egyptian Osiris
Townley Collection 1805,7-3.97
British Museum
UK_618 Marble bust of Antinous AD 130-138
Marble bust of Antinous AD 130-138, Found in Rome Antinous was Hadrian's lover. He was in his mid-teens (the normal Roman marrying age) when he met the Emperor in the 120s AD. After his mysterious death in the Nile in AD 130, Hadrian publicly mourned him. He erected shrines and statutes of him as a youth, man and even as a god - the Greek Dionysos or the Egyptian Osiris
Townley Collection 1805,7-3.97
British Museum