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) dimensions: max H. preserved 9.55 cm. on display	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. not on display	photograph not available yet 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. not on display	photograph not available yet 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. on display	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. on display	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. on display	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. not on display	N.224: Pointed phallus on base resembling circular altar with shallow concave sides N.225: Pointed phallus on tall base with concave sides, possibly originally carved with leaves. "D MAGIUS" incised near the greatest diameter (probably modern). N.226: Pointed phallus symbol on two-tiered base, decorated with two rows of acanthus leaves.
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. on display	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. not on display	photograph not available yet 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. on display	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. on display	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. not on display	photograph not available yet Puffy face with incised eyes and mouth.
N.400: Marble table leg fragment from Italy (Roman) dimensions: max H. pres 10.6 cm. not on display	photograph not available yet Chubby face of a boy (Eros?).
N.404: Marble table leg, provenance unknown dimensions: max H. pres 0.28 cm. not on display	photograph not available yet 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. not on display	photograph not available yet 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.. not on display	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. not on display	photograph not available yet
N.417: Stone pigna base from Praeneste (?) dimensions: H. 9.7 cm. not on display	photograph not available yet 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. not on display	photograph not available yet
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. not on display	photograph not available yet 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. not on display	photograph not available yet 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. on display	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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Stone Sculpture (and other stone objects)