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<rdf:RDF xmlns:schema="//schema.org/" xmlns:rdf="//www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><schema:VisualArtwork><schema:image>http://collections.mfa.org/internal/media/dispatcher/597445/resize%3Aformat%3Dfull</schema:image><schema:name>Head of Bacchus (Dionysos)</schema:name><schema:dateCreated>2nd–early 3rd century A.D.</schema:dateCreated><schema:artMedium>Marble, Dolomitic from the Greek Island of Thasos</schema:artMedium><schema:description>Roman copy or eclectic work, based on a Greek prototype of the fourth century B.C.The tip of the nose and a section of strands of hair near the right eye are restored in plaster. Hair and complex wreath  have suffered a fair amount of damage to the most prominent areas.
  The hair is loosely yet severely dressed, parted in the middle and interwined with ivy berries or vine leaves and grapes. The complete statue showed the young god standing in the nude, a kantharos or high-handled drinking cup in his lowered right hand and a thyrsos or pinecone-topped staff in his raised left.

Scientific Analysis:  
     Marble has been scientifically tested with X-Ray Diffraction and determined to be Dolomitic.
     Harvard Lab No. HI115a:  Isotope ratios -  delta13C +3.20 / delta18O -3.62, Attribution - Thasos-Cape Vathy, Justification - Dolomitic by XRD.</schema:description><schema:artForm>Sculpture</schema:artForm><schema:width>38.0000000000 Centimeter</schema:width><schema:height>26.0000000000 Centimeter</schema:height><schema:url>http://collections.mfa.org/objects/151160/rdf</schema:url></schema:VisualArtwork></rdf:RDF>