THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Applied Art | Rome
21. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Tripod with young ithyphallic Satyrs as legs.
Bronze.
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 27874.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Secret cabinet.
22. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Tripod with young ithyphallic Satyrs as legs.
Bronze.
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 27874.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Secret cabinet.
23. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Tripod with young ithyphallic Satyrs as legs.
Bronze.
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 27874.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Secret cabinet.
24. TOREUTICS. Rome.
Mirror with the Three Graces.
Gilded bronze.
Mid-2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 1987.11.1.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
25. TOREUTICS. Rome.
Personification of Africa.
Phiale from Boscoreale.
Gold, silver. 1st century CE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
26. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Bust of a Syrian (anthropomorphous vase).
Bronze. 2nd-3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. Br 2947.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
27. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Bust of a Syrian (anthropomorphous vase).
Bronze. 2nd—3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. Br 2947.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
28. APPLIED ART. Egypt.
Vessel with inscription of Nebneteru and epitaph of P. Claudius Pulcher.
Alabaster. Manufactured in Egypt ca. 9th or 8th cent. BCE; imported to Rome and reinscribed late 1st century BCE or early 1st century CE.
CIL VI 1282 = ILS 882.
Inv. Nos. N 386 / D 34 / MR 889.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
29. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws (trapezophorum).
Marble.
First half of the 1st cent. BCE
Inv. No. 3921.
Pompeii, I. 6. 11.
30. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws (trapezophorum). A close-up.
Marble.First half of the 1st cent. BCE
Inv. No. 3921.
Pompeii, I. 6. 11.
31. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws (trapezophorum). Detail.
Marble.
First half of the 1st cent. BCE
Inv. No. 3921.
Pompeii, I. 6. 11.
32. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Chest.
Pompeii, the granary market, now used as a deposit store for supplies and artifacts.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, Granary market (VII, 7, 29).
33. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Cathedra of Maximianus.
Ivory. 6th century.
Ravenna, Archiepiscopal Museum.
34. APPLIED ART. Rome.
The game of the “kings”.
Inv. No. NCE 117.
Rome, Capitoline Museums.
35. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Globe from atop the Vatican Obelisk, thought in Medieval times to contain Julius Caesar’s ashes.
Gilded bronze. First half of the 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. S 1066.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Medieval Room.
36. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Calendar with removable pins. (Saturn, Sun, Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus).
From the stone plate of the 3rd—4th centuries CE, found in Rome.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
37. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Cartibulum.
Table-supports (trapezophora): marble. Early Empire period.
Rome, Oratoray of St. Barbara.
38. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Cartibulum.
Table-supports (trapezophora): marble. Early Empire period.
Rome, Oratoray of St. Barbara.
39. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Mirror with a relief depicting the myth of Phrixus and Helle.
Silver. 138—193 CE.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
40. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Sacral-idyllic landscape.
Stucco vault relief from the cubiculum B of a house beneath the Villa Farnesina.
Ca. 20 BCE.
Inv. No. 1037.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.