S22.1 PAN
Museum Collection | Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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Catalogue No. | Louvre Ma266 |
Title | Pan |
Type | Statue |
Material | Marble |
Height | 1.58 metres |
Context | - |
Original / Copy | Roman copy of a Greek statue from group by Heliodorus of Rhodes C2nd B.C. |
Style | Hellenistic |
Date | C2nd A.D. |
Period | Imperial Roman |
DESCRIPTION
The god Pan sits holding a flute and pine-cone(?) in his hands. He has the horns and shaggy legs of a goat, and a rather savage visage. The statue was originally part of a sculpture group depicting the instruction of the bucolic poet Daphnis.