THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Priam
1. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Recognition of Paris in the house of Priam.
Relief of the front of Etruscan cinerary urn.
Travertine.
2nd—1st centuries BCE.
Inv. No. 5742.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
2. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the Trojan war (Iliupersis sarcophagus) — front panel.
Proconnessian marble. Mid-2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6722.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
3. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus of the Amazons (the front panel).
White marble.
Ca. 170 CE.
Inv. No. 1512.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
4. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Fall of Troy: Menelaus captures Helen; Ajax drags Cassandra away from the statue of Athene in the presence of Priam.
Fourth style. 50—79 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, House of Menander (I, 10, 4, wing).
5. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Ajax the Lesser dragging Cassandra from the Palladium in view of Priam.
Fresco in the room 4 of the house of Quintus Poppaeus Sabinus (“House of Menander”).
Fourth style. 60—79 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, House of Menander (I, 10, 4, wing).
6. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Trojan slab (Tabula Iliaca).
Calcite.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 316.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Doves.
7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Trojan slab (Tabula Iliaca).
Calcite.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 316.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Doves.
8. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Priam and Achilles.
Sardonyx.
Roman. 1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Workshop of Dioskourides.
Inv. No. Ж 26.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
9. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Priam and Achilles.
Sardonyx.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Inv. No. Ж 26.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
10. SCULPTURE. Greece.
A fragment of front panel of a sarcophagus with a scene of ransoming of Hector’s body.
Marble. Late 2nd—early 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. 322 / 323.
Sparta, Archaeological Museum.