Inv. Scu 279 Bust of young Marcus Aurelius, cut off under the chest and dressed in a tunic and military cloak (paludamentum). The portrait belongs to the so-called “first type”, known from about 25 copies and likely created right after…
Galleria (PN)
Statue of Athena
Inv. Scu 278 It is one of the numerous Roman copies of a statue of Athena made between the end of the 4th and 5th century BC, in which the goddess is wearing a long tunic (chiton) and a cloak;…
Statue of winged Psyche
Inv. Scu 287 Found in the series of sculptures of Florentine Niobids , due to a similarity to these statues and actually being a copy, for a long time this statue was believed to be a daugther of Niobe of…
Statue of Niobids
Inv. Scu 254 The sculpture depicts one of the children of Niobe, slain by Apollo; it was part of a group that depicted the massacre of the Niobids, the original of which has sometimes been attributed to Skopas. The face…
Young Hercules with snakes
Inv. Scu 247 The statuette shows a child who, seated on the ground, is struggling with two snakes. The work is inspired by an episode from the life of the infant Hercules: enraged because of Zeus’s adultery with Alcmene, Hera…
Portrait of Caracalla
Inv. Scu 277 Portrait of Caracalla cut under the breast and originally belonging to a full figure statue The face, resolutely turned towards the right shoulder and in three-quarter view, is characterized by a careful physiognomic rendering (hollowed eyes, frowned…
Female statue
Inv. Scu 264 The statue, depicting a woman seated on a stool with a high pillow, most likely had a funerary use. The typological scheme, with the right elbow resting on the left wrist, corresponds to the so-called “Pudicitia” type,…
Statue of Hercules fighting the Ceryneian Hind
Inv. Scu 236 The statue depicts Hercules, here shown as a young man, fighting a hydra with snake-heads emerging from a feline body. The only ancient part of the sculpture, however, is the torso of Hercules; the monster, in fact,…
Bust of Faustina the Younger
Inv. Scu 250 The portrait features the empress Faustina the Younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius; the bust, cut down just below the breast, is clad in tunic and mantle. The hair is combed in wavy locks, parted at centre, drawn…
Fragment of a leg of Hercules fighting the Hydra
Inv. Scu 237 The fragment originally belonged to a colossal statue feautring Hercules fighting the Lernaean Hydra. The monster’s serpent-shaped body is crowned by a female head with the mouth open in agony and the hair consisting of snakeheads; small…