Bronze copy of a statue by Calamis representing a female figure holding a drape. The statue was discovered with four similar others in the southwest colonnade of the Villa dei Papiri’s rectangular peristyle between April 1754 and October 1756.
The relief shows a young woman seated on a stool leaning torwards her son, who ris holding a ball in his right hand. A maiden stands in the background. According to the epigram on the epistyle, the grave belonged to a woman named Polyxene. Found…
Grave stele of Archestrate. The woman is seated on the right. A servant stands in front of her, presenting a pyxis. In the center a child holding a bird. Found in 1819 in Aixone, halfway between Athens and Sounion.
Demeter from Knidos. The goddess is seated on a throne The head was carved independently from the body and fixed onto the neck. The statue was found in the Demeter sanctuary in Knidos.
Running girl (the so-called “Atalanta Barberini”). Roman copy after a 5th century Greek original. The statue belonged to the private Barberini Collection and it was acquired by the museum in 1772. In the 18th century, the statue has been restored by…
Bust of Roman Emperor Nero as a boy. The sculpture belonged to the private collection of the Medici family and it has been in the Uffizi Gallery since 1704. The original finding spot is unknown.