WE have a new Antinous bust!
The Torlonia Marbles are going to be displayed in Rome for the first time in 50 years this September at the Capitoline museum in Rome and among them is a new bust of Antinous...not exactly new, its been in storage for decades, but it is new for us!
It shows Antinous as Bacchus wearing a goat skin and on his head that mysterious box-crown that we aren’t entirely sure what its function was but we suspect it may have held a feather adornment or maybe a lotus flower.
There is always another Antinous out there in hiding waiting to be revealed, his mystery never stops unfolding around us!
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