This statue shows Antinous as Bacchus. It was found at the Villa Hadriana and is housed in the Vatican in Rotunda No 54. Known as the Braschi Antinous, this colossal sculpture was found in excavations in 1792-1793 in an area presumed to have been the villa of Hadrian at Praeneste, today Palestrina. Antinous was the Emperor Hadrian's (117-138 ) favorite. He drowned in the waters of the Nile in 130 and was immediately made a god by the Emperor. Is this statue, which dates from the years immediately following his death, Antinous is shown as the god Bacchus (or Dionysius-Osiris). On his h

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This statue shows Antinous as Bacchus. It was found at the Villa Hadriana and is housed in the Vatican in Rotunda No 54. Known as the Braschi Antinous, this colossal sculpture was found in excavations in 1792-1793 in an area presumed to have been the villa of Hadrian at Praeneste, today Palestrina. Antinous was the Emperor Hadrian's (117-138 ) favorite. He drowned in the waters of the Nile in 130 and was immediately made a god by the Emperor. Is this statue, which dates from the years immediately following his death, Antinous is shown as the god Bacchus (or Dionysius-Osiris). On his head is a crown of leaves and ivy berries, and a diadem which at the top would originally have held a cobra (uraeus) or a lotus flower, but which the modern restorers have replaced with a sort of pine cone. The Dionysian attributes of the thyrsus and the mystical chest are also modern additions.

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