White marble, middle of 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Gilded Cupids
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 20363

The grape leaves identify this statue as Dionysus (or Priapus, the patron of viticulture), often portrayed in two-faced hermae associated with a youthful figure of the god himself or a maenad. The back of the head is flat and not smoothed, suggesting that it may have been joined to another herma.