<p>Archaeologists working at the site of Fort Davis, a 19th-century West Texas military fort, recovered a glass intaglio of a classical-style portrait. Of uncertain identity, the androgyny of the figure opens discussion of 19th-century art depicting the classical figure of Antinous. A young man beloved and posthumously deified by Emperor Hadrian in the 1st century C.E., Antinous rose to the status of icon in ancient times, leading to centuries of artistic and religious representations. By the second half of the 19th century, artists and authors frequently employed Antinous as a symbol of male homoeroticism. Viewed through the lens of queer theory, archaeologists can consider this object not just as evocative of 19th-century understandings of gender and classical reception, but also contemplate how the ambiguous figure could have circulated among the African American, immigrant European, and white American populations of Fort Davis.</p>