Head of Bacchus

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The bust represents Bacchus, who was the god of intoxication and wine in Roman mythology. On the Warwick vase, which can be seen at the centre of the Sculpture Garden, Bacchus is depicted as a bearded, drunk old old man with a lot of hair. Here, the god of wine is a detached and restrained young man with a beautiful head, crowned with elegant curls and a wreath of perfect grapes.   These 3D scans have been produced with an Artec Eva with the ambition to produce a digital representation as close to the original as possible. However, the presented scans are not to be regarded as duplicates as due to inaccessible areas etc deviations from the original might occur Photography credit: CC BY SA Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum