Antinous (111 – 130) depicted as Osiris
Antinous was a beautiful Bithynian youth (on the shores of what is today the Black Sea). He was the beloved of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (76 – 138). Antinous was drowned in the Nile, and following his death the distraught Hadrian had Antinous made into a god. In the years following his death many different statues and paintings were made by the followers of the cult of Antinous, such as the one above.
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