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Marble bust of Julia the Elder. The finding spot is unknown.

Bust of Emperor Augustus

Roman copy of Polieuctus' bust of Demosthenes

Roman copy of Philiskos of Rhodes' statue of Polyhymnia, muse of sacred poetry, sacred hymn, dance, and eloquence. Found in via Terni inside an ancient underground passage in the area of the Horti Variani (1928).

Bust of Nero Claudius Drusus

The main scene on the sarcophagus depicts the Niobids’ massacre; the figure in the left is Artemis, her arrows pierce four of Niobe’s daughters while Niobe herself and a nurse bear two young dying girls. On the right , Apollo’s arrows hit four…

Roman copy of Ptrassiteles' statue of Aphrodite Pselioumene. The statue probably comes from Tivoli.

Bronze bust of Sappho (right profile). Roman copy after a 4th century BC Greek original. The sculpture was discovered in Pompeii (Villa dei Papiri)

Young Dionysus with grapes around his head leaning on the satyr Ampelos, The original finding spot is unknown.

Roman copy of Boethus' sculpture of a boy playing with a goose. The statue comes from the Roman villa of the Quintili along the Via Appia.

Sculptural group with Pan and a faun sitting on a rock. From Herculaneum.

Statue of Pan as a naked young boy sitting on a rock with a flute in his hands

Statue of a young boy holding a mantle. The finding spot is unknown.

A Roman copy of a 4th century BC Greek bust of Seleucus I found in Herculaneum.

Bronze equestrian statue of Emperor Nero holding a lighting bolt. The statue was found in Herculaneum in the 18th century.

Colossal statue of emperor Tiberius sitting with a scroll in his hand. The statue was found in Veii (southern Etruria) in 1741.

Bust of emperor Claudius wearing a corona quercea. The sculpture is part of the Farnese collection and it belongs to the National Archeological Museum of Naples since 1870. The finding spot is unknown.

Statue of Marcus Holconius Rufus found in Pompei. The figure wears a decorated lorica.

Metope of the Parthenon (South) showing the centauromachia.

Metope of the Parthenon (South) showing the centauromachia.