WE have a new Antinous bust!
The Torlonia Marbles are being displayed for the first time in 50 years 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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