Sleeping Hermaphrodite

I think it includes everything Pausanias saw on his grand tour, organized by city. He wrote in the late second century AD. I don't know where Apollo Sauroktonos was in antiquity and have not looked hard enough to know if it is in there.

 

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Another one was sold in 2017. I also checked RPC online and 4 specimen are reported, sadly without any pictures.

 

What was it that Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park? Nature finds a way?

 

Wow! That specimen is very clear. I'm convinced it's the hermaphrodite statue.

 

I think this is the one @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix is referring to. The auctioneer notes, "Das Motiv des schlafenden Hermaphroditen ist durch eine Skulptur im Pariser Louvre überliefert."

 

Wow, I'm sorry I missed seeing this coin when it came up for auction!

 

The book Ancient coins Illustrating Lost Masterpieces of Ancient Art: A numismatic Commentary on Pausanias was an attempt to bring to a 1960s audience three very old journal articles. It is not organized by modern standards and is tough going if you didn't learn lower-case polytonic Greek at your 19th century English boarding school.

The original articles are located at
https://archive.org/details/journalofhelleni06soci/page/50
https://archive.org/details/journalofhelleni07sociuoft/page/57
https://archive.org/details/journalofhelleni08soci/page/6

It would be a worthy project to bring this scholarship to a modern numismatic audience.

 

Not in the least, TIF!!!

 

I would love the link if you could send it to me!

 

@dougsmit , I don't think he excludes statues that are still extant.

Most are lost, so the title is dramatic, but not fully descriptive.