Inv. Scu 646 The young god Harpocrates , son of Isis and Osiris, is represented totally naked in the typical gesture of silence, with the index finger to his lips. The gesture may allude to the mystic and secret character…
Statue
Statue of a Bacchante
Inv. Scu 39 Female statue wearing a long robe (peplos) with the hem falling on her shoulders (apoptygma) and short cloak (clamys). The head wears a small corn-ear wreath (made in plaster and product of restoration). Some attributes lead to…
Sphinx
Inv. Scu 33 The Sphinx, carved from a single block of red granite of Assuan, is depicted crouched with its front paws extended and its rear paws under its body. It is wearing the nemes which originally was combined with…
Apollo of Omphalos
Inv. Scu 638 Originally part of the Albani Collection, the Capitoline Museums’ Apollo is an example of quality sculpture. There are several theories as to who created the original sculpture from which our Apollo and many others were copied. Many…
Colossal statue of a river (Marforio)
Inv. Scu 1 The statue known as Marforio is one of the six “talking statues” of Rome, along with the Pasquino, Abbot Luigi, Babuino, Madama Lucrezia and the so-called Facchino: the sculptures were sometimes used to post anonymous satiric verses…
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…
Sphinx of Pharaoh Amasis II
Inv. Scu 35 The sphinx, carved from a single block of brown basanite, with the body of lion and human head, is depicted as usual crouching with its front paws (now missing) stretched forward and its hind paws under its…
Capitoline Wolf
Inv. Scu 1181 Larger-than-life bronze statue, made with the direct lost-wax casting technique in a single casting. Its provenance is unknown but the analyses of the casting clay still inside suggest that it was made with clay coming from the…
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,…
Cynocephalus
Inv. Scu 2937 The statue, carved from a single block of grey marble (Bardiglio di Carrara), depicts a baboon (cynocephalus) seated with its fore paws legs resting on its knees; the sex is visible between the wide-apart rear legs. The…