“Head of Hercules” from Nemi
“Torso of Minotaur” from Via S. Tommaso in Parione
“Group of
Achilles and Penthesilea” second century AD from Settebagni from a Hellenistic
original of about 170/160 BC
“Manly torso with
chlamys”
representing Odysseus stealing the Palladium maybe from a Hellenistic bronze
original of 197 BC by Nicerato. It was found in Via Margutta
“Mutilated statue of
teacher of the children of Niobe” early second century AD from a group of
Niobids
“Actor
disguised as Papposilenus” second century AD from Torre Astura
“Double herm of
Dionysus” of
the Hadrian period from Via Sallustiana
Tenth
Room - Ships of Caligula (37/41) in Nemi
“Protomes” including one with the head of
Medusa
Eleventh
Room- Historic Celebrations
“Headless
statue with breastplate”
“Relief of
the victory of Actium”
“Relief of
Terracina”
Twelfth
Room - Sarcophagus of Portonaccio
On the lid “Four
scenes from the life of the deceased”
On the
sides “Barbarians ask for mercy and crossing of a bridge of boats by Roman
soldiers with barbarian prisoners” 180 maybe of Aulus Julius Pompilius one of
the generals of Marcus Aurelius
“Strong
is undoubtedly the parallelism with the reliefs of the Column of Marcus
Aurelius: in fact this sarcophagus shares with the column the expressiveness of
the characters represented at the limits of the disintegration of form,
according to a design concept, due to the exasperated use of the drill, which
would fully affirm itself in the third century” (Elena Calandra)
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