GrB017
Graeco-Roman bronze grotesque figure of a man
2nd century BC- 1st century AD.
Height: 8.25 cm. (3 1/4 in.)
Condition: Missing left arm, repaired left leg. Fine green and reddish patina. Mounted.
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The hunchbacked figure is bent forward, leaning on a now missing cane, held in his right hand. His elongated head turned to the right. He is bald, with a lock on top of the head.
His exaggerated phallus bent backward and emerges from the back. The figure is finely modeled in the tradition of the Hellenistic style of Alexandria.
Cf. Mitten, D. G., and Doeringer, S. F., 1967, Cat. Nos. 121, 122, pp. 122-123
Comstock - Vermeule, - Boston 1971, Cat. No. 146, p.130
Mitten, D. G., and Doeringer, S. F., 1967
Mitten, D. G., and Doeringer, S. F., editors, Master Bronzes from the Classical World, Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1967
Comstock - Vermeule, - Boston 1971
Comstock, M., and Vermeule, C. C., Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Greenwich, Conn. 1971
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