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Medaillon engraving en profil of Antinous.
Antinous, also called Antinoös, (c. 111 – c. 130) was a Greek youth from Bithynia, a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god and sometimes merely as a hero.
Engraving by Giuseppe Maria Testana.
