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Antinoë | Night Falls from The Fold (2025)

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Vue des ruines de la ville, prise du côté du sud-ouest — “View of the city ruins, taken from the south-west”

Antinous, a Greek boy from Bithynia, was Emperor Hadrian’s closest lover. While sailing the Nile, Antinous drowned under strange circumstances at age 18. Following his death, in a controversial move, Hadrian deified Antinous as Osiris and Dionysos. Additionally Hadrian identified the rosy lotus of the Nile as a symbol of the boy.

Antinoöpolis was founded by Hadrian not too far from where Antinous drowned, and the city became the center of worship for Antinous Osiris. Hadrian would then move to Athens, where he established an annual festival to commemorate Antinous each October: Antinoeia.

Edme-François Jomard. 1817.

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Wool tapestry-woven legging depicting a king enthroned amid a battle of cavalry and foot soldiers in Persian garb Antinoe, Egypt Sasanian period, ca. 530-640 CE Musée du Louvre, Paris (E 29323)