Herma of a Poet (Virgil?). Detail
Pentelic marble. 10—20 CE.
Inv. No. S 2410.Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, I. 63Photo by Sergey Sosnovskiy
Herma of a Poet (Virgil?). Detail.
Pentelic marble. 10—20 CE.
Inv. No. S 2410.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, I. 63
(Roma, Musei capitolini, Museo Centrale Montemartini).
Origin:
From the area near the Mausoleum of Augustus, 1937.
Description:
The statue can perhaps be identified as Virgil, the poet of whom Augustus was particularly fond.
Credits:
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