Stone Sculpture (and other stone objects)

N.244 Marble sarcophagus fragment (4th c. CE)
N.154: Marble head of barbarian from Italy (3rd/2nd c. BCE)
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![]() Bearded man's head with handle-bar mustache, wearing a bowl-shaped helmet. Comparanda: a helmeted Gaul in Naples, presumed to be a copy of a monument set up by Attalos II of Pergamon on the Athens Acropolis: Andrew Stewart, Attalos, Athens, and the Akropolis: the Pergamene "Little Barbarians" and Their Roman and Renaissance Legacy (New York, Cambridge University Press 2004). |
N.157: Marble hand and pitcher from Italy (Roman)
dimensions: max H. pitcher pres 6.16; max L. from spout to break at wrist 14.08; W. of hand across knuckles 5.69 cm.
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Right hand with index finger through handle of pitcher. Traces of reddish paint. |
N.158: Marble base of statuette of Asclepius from Italy (Roman)
dimensions: max H. pres from base to top of staff 11.52 cm.
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Profiled oval base, flanked by torus. On base, two bare feet with traces of a garment just above ankles; next to right foot, a thick gnarled staff with the coil of a snake. |
N.198: Marble table leg fragment from Praeneste (1st-3rd c CE)
dimensions: max H. pres 17.4 cm.
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![]() Fragment of upper part of table leg with head and shoulders of male figure with chubby cheeks. |
N.199: Marble table leg fragment from Italy (1st-3rd c CE)
dimensions: max H. pres 9.8 cm.
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![]() Fragment with head and neck of woman (?) facing front with curly hair. |
N.200: Marble table leg fragment from Italy (3rd c CE)
dimensions: max H. pres 12.64 cm.
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![]() Fragment with frontal face of chubby Cupid with long flowing hair parted in center with central braid from forehead to rear; hair articulated by deep drilling from surface; eyes deeply recessed with deep drill holes at nostrils and ends of mouth. |
N.224: Limestone pigna (cippus; tomb marker over a male burial) from Praeneste (?)
dimensions: max H. ca 22.5 cm.
N.225: Limestone pigna (cippus; tomb marker over a male burial) from Praeneste (?) dimensions: max H. ca 37.0 cm. N.226: Limestone pigna (cippus; tomb marker over a male burial) from Praeneste (?) dimensions: max H. pres ca 42.0 cm.
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![]() N.224: Pointed phallus on base resembling circular altar with shallow concave sides |
N.241: Marble lid of cinerary urn from Praeneste (?)
dimensions: max H. to top of gable 11.0; L. from gable to gable 26.5; W. across primary gable 31 cm.
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![]() Lid in the form of gabled roof with four projecting acroteria at corners (dramatic masks). Two cornucopiae fill the primary pediment. |
N.242: Marble entablature fragment from Italy (?)
dimensions: max H. pres 12.0; max L. pres 35.0; max W. pres 17.5 cm.
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Surface carved with alternating leaf pattern; band of low dentils; small diagonal band of bead and reel between small tori; strongly projecting plain cornice with slanting crown moulding decorated with egg and dart between small tori below two broad tori. |
N.243: Marble Ionic capital fragment from Italy (?)
dimensions: max H. pres ca 9.5; max L. pres 15.0; max W. 14.0 cm.
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![]() Small capital, not of a column (from the nature of the break), but rather of some open, floral element. One volute is decorated with incised leaf-like elements and tied with a rope in center; front and back surfaces of capital between volutes plain. Between capital and abacus, leaf and dart below a plain, narrow moulding. |
N.244: Marble sarcophagus fragment from Italy (?)
dimensions: max H. pres 19.0; L. pres 56.5; max Th 9.5 cm.
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![]() Fragment from the top of the long side of a sarcophagus. Agricultural scene: in the center, a child farmer in paenula and short tunic plowing with two oxen in front of two trees; in front of oxen, a fragment of another, similar group. At left, a winged Victory moves left but looks back at the farmers. |
N.399: Marble table leg fragment from Italy (Roman)
dimensions: max H. pres 13.7 cm.
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Puffy face with incised eyes and mouth. |
N.400: Marble table leg fragment from Italy (Roman)
dimensions: max H. pres 10.6 cm.
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Chubby face of a boy (Eros?). |
N.404: Marble table leg, provenance unknown
dimensions: max H. pres 0.28 cm.
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Tapering "leg" in section elongated and ovoid section. |
N.405: Marble hand holding stick from Italy (?)
dimensions: L. pres fist-wrist ca 8.7 cm.
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Right hand clenched around gnarled staff broken near the fist. |
N.407: Marble entablature fragment from Ostia (Roman)
dimensions: max H. pres 6.8; max L. pres 10.5 cm..
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![]() Projecting cornice with flat top surface, below which are (top to bottom): bead and reel (?), egg-and-dart, plain angular mouldings, a second bead-and-reel, dentils, and leaf and dart, all separated by tori. |
N.414: Stone conical vessel of sandstone from Turkey (?)
dimensions: H. 14.6 cm.
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N.417: Stone pigna base from Praeneste (?)
dimensions: H. 9.7 cm.
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Limestone, rectangular in plan and section with shallow circular depression. |
N.418: Ellipsoidal stone weight from Praeneste (?)
dimensions: H. 9.2; L. 15.1; W. 12.0 cm.
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N.419: Disk-shaped stone weight from Praeneste (?)
dimensions: H. ca 16.2; top D. ca 22.4 x 17.3; underside D. 16.1 x 13.8 cm.
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In the top are an incised T and two holes filled with lead securing the stumps of a metal handle. |
N.420: Marble warrior head from Praeneste (Hellenistic/Roman)
dimensions: estimated H. pres ca 40; est W. pres ca 21; est Th pres 26.5 cm.
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Badly mutilated head of a bearded warrior wearing a Corinthian helmet, pushed back Pericles-fashion. Likely the head of Menelaus carrying the body of Patroklus ("Pasquino" group). |
N.430: Stone metope said to be from Etruria (Archaic)
dimensions: H. 38; W. pres 48 cm.
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![]() Limestone fragment of a corner triglyph-metope with bucranium and fillets in the metope; 6 guttae below the triglyph. Around the corner, part of another triglyph with guttae. |
Floor Pavers, Slabs, and Revetments, Colored Marbles, and Other Stones
For a complete list see the "Checklist of the Entire Collection", nos. 520-580. About half the collection is on display. |
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