Tuesday 1 January 2008

Mysterious Creatures 6: Antinoos-Osiris et al.






The Vatican Museum contains a partial reconstruction of the statuary of the Serapeum of the Canopus at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. The group includes a statue of Antinoos as Osiris with attendants, and a personification of the River Nile in which he drowned.

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