Inv. Scu 1111 The statue represents an old woman who, leaning on a stick, carries a lamb under her right arm. The coat she is wearing, of a rather ordinary quality, heavily covers her left shoulder while leaving her breast…
Statue
Small female statue: Nymph
Inv. Scu 996 The upper part of the body of this small female figure is bare, while the legs are clad in a cloak. She is bending forward with her left leg raised and her left elbow resting on her…
Statue of a Muse
Inv. Scu 653 This sculpture represents a standing Muse, clad in a chiton with short sleeves and a cloak that passes over her left shoulder and under her right arm; she wears sandals on her feet, while three feathers adorn…
Statue of Aphrodite, so-called Capitoline Venus
Inv. Scu 409 The slightly larger-than-life statue depicts the goddess immediately before taking a bath. It is a late Hellenistic (2nd or 1st century BC) remaking of the famous and beloved statue of Aphrodite made by Praxiteles around 360 BC…
Statue of a seated man
Inv. Scu 262 The man, wearing a tunic, a cloak that falls on his legs and laced footwear (calcei), is holding a scroll and tablet in his hands; the pose is therefore one of an intellectual, according to a common…
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,…
Statue of Pan
Inv. Scu 16 These two symmetric statues feature Pan the Greek god of country life and nature, linked to the cult of Dionysus. The god, as usual, is depicted with goat-like legs, hooves and horns, while the upper part of…
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 Isis
Inv. Scu 744 The figure is easily identifiable as he goddess Isis . She wears a chiton and a mantle that ties over her breasts (the so called knot of Isis) . A piece of the mantle is used as…
Statue of Athena
Inv. Scu 654 The sculpture depicts the goddess Athena (the equivalent of the Roman deity Minerva) in motion. The figure’s weight is carried on the slightly bent right leg. The left leg is rotated in the opposite direction and is…