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Sculpture | Rome
4201. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Cleopatra VII (?).
Marble. 40—30 BCE.
Inv. No. 38511.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Profane Museum.
4202. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of the emperor August in corona civica.
Plaster cast.
Inv. No. Ma 1246.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Profane Museum.
4203. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Group of the two emperors (Diocletian and Maximian).
Porphyry.
Early 4th century.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Museums of the Vatican Apostolic Library.
4204. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Octavian August.
Bronze.
Inv. No. 409.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Museums of the Vatican Apostolic Library.
4205. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Octavian August.
Bronze.
Inv. No. 409.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Museums of the Vatican Apostolic Library.
4206. SCULPTURE. Southern Italy.
Portrait of Augustus.
Bronze.
Reign of Caligula.
Inv. No. 409.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Museums of the Vatican Apostolic Library.
4207. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statuette of the “Good Shepherd”. Fragmentary relief from the front of a sarcophagus, reworked in full relief.
End of the 3rd — beginning of the 4th cent. CE.
Extensive restoration by Giuseppe Angelini, 1764.
Inv. No. 28590 (ex 103).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4208. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statuette of the “Good Shepherd”. Fragmentary relief from the front of a sarcophagus, reworked in full relief.
End of the 3rd — beginning of the 4th cent. CE.
Extensive restoration by Giuseppe Angelini, 1764.
Inv. No. 28590 (ex 103).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4209. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statuette of the “Good Shepherd”. Fragmentary relief from the front of a sarcophagus, reworked in full relief.
End of the 3rd — beginning of the 4th cent. CE.
Extensive restoration by Giuseppe Angelini, 1764.
Inv. No. 28590 (ex 103).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4210. INSCRIPTIONS. Rome.
Slab used to close a child funerary niche (loculus) in a catacombs.
Marble. 4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 28596.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4211. INSCRIPTIONS. Rome.
Slab used to close a child funerary niche (loculus) in a catacombs. Detail: Saint Apostles Peter and Paul.
Marble. 4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 28596.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4212. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Elijah ascends to Heaven on the Chariot of Fire before Elisha’s Eyes. Fragment of a sarcophagus side (?).
Marble.
3rd—4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 31488 (ex 151 A).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4213. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cast of a sarcophagus with Traditio Legis in the Vatican Grottoes.
Original (inv. 174): marble, c. 350—375 CE.
Inv. Nos. 31528 (ex XXV) / 174 (orig.).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4214. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cast of a sarcophagus with Traditio Legis in the Vatican Grottoes. Frontal side: Sacrifice of Isaac, Traditio Legis, Christ before Pilate.
Original: marble, c. 350—375 CE.
Inv. Nos. 31528 (ex XXV) / 174 (orig.).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4215. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cast of a sarcophagus with Traditio Legis in the Vatican Grottoes. Left side: Prediction of Peter’s denial.
Original: marble, c. 350—375 CE.
Inv. Nos. 31528 (ex XXV) / 174 (orig.).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4216. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cast of a sarcophagus with Traditio Legis in the Vatican Grottoes. Right side: Peter baptizes his overseers; Jesus heals a woman with a bleeding.
Original: marble, c. 350—375 CE.
Inv. Nos. 31528 (ex XXV) / 174 (orig.).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4217. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cast of a sarcophagus with Traditio Legis in the Vatican Grottoes. Detail of the front side: Traditio Legis.
Original: marble, c. 350—375 CE.
Inv. Nos. 31528 (ex XXV) / 174 (orig.).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4218. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cast of a sarcophagus with Traditio Legis in the Vatican Grottoes. Detail of the front side: apostle Paul.
Original: marble, c. 350—375 CE.
Inv. Nos. 31528 (ex XXV) / 174 (orig.).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4219. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cast of a sarcophagus with Traditio Legis in the Vatican Grottoes. Detail of the front side: Luke the Evangelist (?).
Original: marble, c. 350—375 CE.
Inv. Nos. 31528 (ex XXV) / 174 (orig.).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
4220. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cast of a sarcophagus with Traditio Legis in the Vatican Grottoes. Detail of the front side: Sacrifice of Isaac.
Original: marble, c. 350—375 CE.
Inv. Nos. 31528 (ex XXV) / 174 (orig.).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.