1094 (original number, Casts) and 8-5119 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Cast of head of the infant Dionysos, repeated from the group of Hermes (Latin: Mercury) and Dionysos. Found at Olympia, Greece. Museum, Olympia.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the Royal Museum, Berlin
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Person depicted:
Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Comment:
This head, which has been missing for decades, may be the head attached to Dionysus on cast 21-55. The head on 21-55 is not original to it - this head of Infant Dionysus is hollow and does not align well to the solid body on 21-55.