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Hearst Museum object titled Terminal bust (reproduction), accession number 21-25, described as Cast of terminal bust of a bearded Dionysos. From a marble in Villa Albani. The collection of the Villa Albani was hermetically closed in 1901-1902. Malpieri apparently confused this Dionysis with the larger ones on Villa Borghese. A similar bust in the University Museum (marble) is from the old stock of the same Villa Borghese Collection, not placed on exhibition there. Malpieri’s statement seems wrong.