Inv. Scu 731

Over-life-size female statue, named after the collection that once housed it. The figure rests her weight on the left leg while stepping forward with her right. The head, slightly small in comparison to the body, is turned towards the right. She wears a highly belted chiton and a mantle (himation), which falls heavily over her body. The unclothed arms are both the result of modern restoration.
While there is no doubt about the pertinence of the head, since it was taken from the same block of Greek marble from which the chiton is carved, the debate about the identification of the figure is still open and it has alternatively been interpreted as an Amazon, a Muse (Melpomene), Persephone and
Juno .
It is a work of high quality, a Pergamene School original, either spoils of war or, more probably, commissioned to a microasiatic artist . The work dates to the second quarter of the second century BC, and find comparisons with other Pergamene draped figures of that period.
It was initially part of the Cesi Collection, then of the Collezione Albani and finally became part of the Museo Capitolino in 1733.