Statue of Antina

The granite terrace in Tsarskoye Selo is decorated with other statues, a statue of Antinoe. The year of manufacture - 1851, the workshop of IA Hamburger (galvanocopy from the original Lisippa), copper. Hadrian Jerusalem renamed in his honor and on the ruins of the second temple put a statue of his minor lover Antinoe, whom he ordered to worship as a god. In the same year he and Antinos went to Egypt, and Antine drowned in the Nile. Adrian deified him, ordered him to put statues throughout the empire, even renamed the constellation Eagle in his honor.