R2 Cat. 124

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C. AD (Roman)

Lower part of a triton has a twisting tail set at an angle to the plinth. It curves in two directions and turns in on itself. Front of upper tail is covered with four rows of large overlapping leaf-like scales with slightly ridged surfaces. Inner sid...

R2 Cat. 125

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Hadrianic (Roman)

Asklepios stands with weight on I. leg, r. leg bent, I. hand on hip. His head was turned slightly to proper r. He wears sandals with closed heels; a cloak falls over his I. shoulder, is drawn across both hips and held by I. hand, leaving most of tors...

R2 Cat. 126

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C. AD (Roman)

R. arm is against his side; l. arm is covered by the cloak which falls vertically in front and crosses diagonally to r. armpit in back. Musculature of chest and stomach is indicated in broad planes. R. hip is higher, thus weight is on r. leg.

The work...

R2 Cat. 127

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

180-250 AD (Roman)

Ganymede is grasped on r. hip and at l. side of waist by claws of the eagle. He wears a chlamys fastened with large round brooch in the center of his chest. Folds of chlamys and separations of claws are made by deep drill runs.

Drill work suggests a d...

R2 Cat. 128

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd half of 2nd C. AD (Roman)

The head of Tyche is preserved from the crown to base of neck. She wears a crescent diadem with a crown of turrets. A mantel flows down the side of the crown behind her hair. The neck is slanted forward to her r. and the head turned back slightly to ...

R2 Cat. 129

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st half of 3rd C. AD (Roman)

Her weight is on l. leg, r. leg bent and drawn back. Her r. arm was probably held out, holding plektron, and l. holding kithara. She leans with l. leg against a simply profiled altar which supports the kithara on top. Muse wears high-girt chiton with...

R2 Cat. 130

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

(Hellenistic or Roman)

The slightly larger than lifesize foot is crossed by a sandal strap below base of toes. A heart-shaped attachment joins it to a second perpendicular strap which crosses between big and second toes. The attachment is decorated by Medusa head, with sna...

R2 Cat. 131

Sculpture

Steatite, Serpentine, Stone

1st or 2nd C. AD? (Roman)

R. foot rests on the base and is freestanding except for an attachment at the inner side of the back. L. foot is advanced in relief. The stylized feet and toes are elongated. The slanted break above the ankles is smoothed and left with a ridge used, ...

R2 Cat. 132

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd half of 2nd C. AD (Roman)

The foot is about one and a half times lifesize. The drill was used only sparingly, at the outer ends of the divisions between the toes and to separate the big toe. Carefully chiseled channels divide the other toes. The bone structure and musculature...

R2 Cat. 133

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

5th C. AD (Late Roman)

Around the wrist is a large band, a bracelet, which ends or peters out on the underside of the arm. The fingers were separated first by sharp drilled rows of holes which were then cut away with sharp chisel strokes. The hand holds an object which was...

R2 Cat. 134

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

mid-3rd C. BC (Hellenistic)

The stele is tall and rectangular, tapering slightly toward the top. It is crowned by a pediment with three acroteria, the center one of which bears traces of a palmette; the two at the sides were not carved. On the face of the shaft is a recessed re...

R2 Cat. 135

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

perhaps 150-125 BC (Hellenistic)

A-1 and A-2. These fragments make up the lower r. portion of the relief. They show the legs and lower hem of the himation, of thick wool cloth, of a standing man, the central figure of the relief. Both feet came nearly straight out of the background:...

R2 Cat. 136

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd C. BC (Hellenistic)

Fragment A shows the outline of the head, the l. shoulder, and elbow of a child standing beside the woman in B. Although the woman’s face is gone, the head cloth can be seen coming down on both shoulders. Her himation is drawn across her body and sup...

R2 Cat. 137

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Hellenistic to 4th C. AD (Hellenistic)

At the top, in the pediment, is a moth with outstretched wings. The main recessed panel shows two large standing figures and part of a third to the r.; at the far l. are two smaller figures, one medium-sized, possibly seated, and the other a very sma...

R2 Cat. 138

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C. BC (Hellenistic)

A rectangular stele--whether horizontal or vertical is not certain--is framed at the r. side by a Doric pilaster with a wide, flat base and a shaft which tapers markedly upward. There are two fasciae of an epistyle. A man dressed in a himation stands...

R2 Cat. 139

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Late Hellenistic? (Hellenistic or Roman)

At the l. are the neck, shoulders, and part of the chest of an adult--whether man or woman is difficult to tell. The head was possibly veiled. The r. hand clutches the cloth coming over the l. shoulder; the arm must have been covered by the himation,...

R2 Cat. 140

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C. BC or 1st C. AD (Hellenistic or Roman)

The stele has a simple panel frame, the top of which is straight, not pedimental. There are two ladies in Pudicitia posture, the one on the l. smaller, the other in the center taller (cf. Cat. 245 Fig. 425); a young man at the r. has his r. arm in a ...

R2 Cat. 141

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd-1st C. BC (Hellenistic)

The stele is made from nearly half of a large Doric column with four arrises preserved. The interridge distance is ca. 0.08. Between two trees is a horseman galloping to r. Holding the reins in his l. hand, he turns his head slightly back. It is not ...

R2 Cat. 142

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Hellenistic? (Hellenistic or Roman)

The nude male figure carries a cloth draped over his l. shoulder. His l. arm is bent at the elbow, comes forward, and grasps the heavy drapery which falls in broad folds from his shoulder. A trace of the drapery, or possibly of the r. arm, survives a...

R2 Cat. 143

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd C. AD (Roman)

A heroic nude male figure in high relief stands frontally with his arms away from his body. He looks off to his l. The weight is on his l. leg, the r. is bent and drawn back slightly. In his r. hand he holds a thick round object, probably a weight (...

R2 Cat. 144

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

(Roman)

A male figure, apparently a child, is only roughly blocked out. The youth stands with both feet firmly planted on the base. A curving shape on his r. side suggests that he was intended to carry a cornucopia, and a slight protuberance across his body ...

R2 Cat. 145

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd C. AD? (Roman)

The two fragmentary figures are separated by a vertical band, W. 0.03. Figure at l. is a youthful male with chlamys over both shoulders and a sleeved tunic. Three horizontal swinging folds are on his chest. His head is broken off at the neck. He recl...

R2 Cat. 146

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd or 3rd C. AD (Roman)

A belongs to the l. of B. Both blocks are in two registers depicting scenes of venatio and wild beast fights.

A. Upper Register: bull, destroyed behind front legs, facing man (nude or wearing trunks). Also a bear, standing on hind legs, fighting a bul...

R2 Cat. 147

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

3rd-4th C. AD (or later?) (Roman)

The three reliefs which follow, two venatio compositions and an enigmatic cult scene, were found together, by chance, in a vegetable garden, ca. 145 m. W of PBr and ca. 130 m. E of the mausoleum of Claudia Antonia Sabina (No. 32.1 on Fig. 1; the find...

R2 Cat. 148

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

3rd-4th C. AD (Roman)

The three reliefs which follow, two venatio compositions and an enigmatic cult scene, were found together, by chance, in a vegetable garden, ca. 145 m. W of PBr and ca. 130 m. E of the mausoleum of Claudia Antonia Sabina (No. 32.1 on Fig. 1; the find...