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Like the wall paintings with a column capital and a globe exhibited at the museum, this piece comes from the peristyle of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. It was located on the north wall between rooms N and O. Two metal vessels stand on marble blocks (the silver oinochoe - jug - is difficult to see, as it is almost entirely worn away), and a tall palm branch rests diagonally against the background.

The large vase is probably bronze. The distinctive red color of the metal may have resulted from a special alloy. The Roman author Pliny the Elder described varieties in hue obtained in the famous bronzes produced in Corinth, making clear that craftsmen had a sophisticated knowledge of alloys and could arrive at many color variations.

Roman, Late Republican, candidate. 50-40 BCE. From the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, peristyle (E).

Met Museum, New York (03.14.3)

This section of the fresco from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor of Boscoreale depicts a wall and a floor with a column. It features a silhouette of a grape-vine leaf.

The room to which this once belonged was a dressing room for the summer triclinium (dining room), square with sides of just over three meters. It was at the end of corridor 23 with its entrance opposite that of the summer triclinium G. It was an almost square room, with walls of around three meters, and was also decorated in a simple way that imitated the Corinthian room. The decoration here was of marble pilasters with panels inlaid with yellow Venetian marble. Behind them was a red granite podium with green marble shelf. Above this were Corinthian columns, which together with the pilasters went up to the lintel and the ceiling.

What's the meaning of the silhouette of the grape leaf? To me, this is clearly a reference to Dionysus-Bacchus, who is frequently part of the designs of a triclinium. In the dressing room for the triclinium, perhaps it was a reminder that wine was forthcoming?

Roman, Late Republican, ca. 50-40 BCE.

Met Museum, New York (03.14.11)

Parian marble
Roman Late Republican period, ca. 50 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades), Villa Pamphili

The cuts on the portrait, particularly in the hair, served for the attachment of additions in other materials.

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Musei Capitolini, Rome
Inv. MC 3356

Parian marble
Roman Late Republican period, Triumviral period, ca. 40-30 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades), near the Pyramid of Cestius, 1935

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Musei Capitolini, Rome
Inv. MC 2409

Parian marble
Roman Late Republican period, Triumviral period, ca. 40-30 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades), near the Pyramid of Cestius, 1935

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Musei Capitolini, Rome
Inv. MC 2409

Parian marble
Roman Late Republican period, Triumviral period, ca. 40-30 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades), near the Pyramid of Cestius, 1935

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Musei Capitolini, Rome
Inv. MC 2409

Parian marble
Roman Late Republican period, ca. 50 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades), Villa Pamphili

The cuts on the portrait, particularly in the hair, served for the attachment of additions in other materials.

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Musei Capitolini, Rome
Inv. MC 3356

Greek island marble
Roman Late Republican period, ca. 150-100 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades)

This portrait of a well-to-do Roman is inspired by the portraiture of Hellenistic dynasts.

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Antiquarium Comunale, Rome
Inv. AC 10480

Parian marble
Roman Late Republican period, ca. 50 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades), Villa Pamphili

The cuts on the portrait, particularly in the hair, served for the attachment of additions in other materials.

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Musei Capitolini, Rome
Inv. MC 3356

Greek island marble
Roman Late Republican period, ca. 150-100 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades)

This portrait of a well-to-do Roman is inspired by the portraiture of Hellenistic dynasts.

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Antiquarium Comunale, Rome
Inv. AC 10480

Parian marble
Roman Late Republican period, Triumviral period, ca. 40-30 BCE
From Rome (see on Pleiades), near the Pyramid of Cestius, 1935

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Musei Capitolini, Rome
Inv. MC 2409

Etruscan Late Hellenistic period, Roman Late Republican period, ca. 150-50 BCE
Made at Chiusi (ancient Clusium; see on Pleiades)
Archaeological provenience unknown; perhaps Chiusi

Photographed on display at, and in the collection of, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), Naples, Italy
Former Borgia Collection, Velletri

Etruscan Late Hellenistic period, Roman Late Republican period, ca. 150-50 BCE
Made at Chiusi (ancient Clusium; see on Pleiades)
Archaeological provenience unknown; perhaps Chiusi

Photographed on display at, and in the collection of, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), Naples, Italy
Former Borgia Collection, Velletri

Limestone
Roman Late Republican period, ca. 2nd-1st c. BCE
From Foligno (ancient Fulginia(e); see on Pleiades), sanctuary at loc. Cancelli

In the collection of, and photographed on display in, the Museo della città di Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Umbria, Italy

The tomb dates to the end of the Roman Late Republican period, ca. 40-30 BCE. It is located where the Via Praenestina and Via Labicana leave the city of Rome to the east; in the modern city it makes up part of the Porta Maggiore complex, although it predates the construction of the aqueducts and the Aurelian Walls that created the gate. It is constructed in concrete masonry faced with travertine, on a foundation of volcanic tuff. A Latin inscription identifies the structure as the tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, a baker and contractor, almost certainly a freedman (libertus). The full length relief of a man and woman found at the site is reasonably connected with the tomb, and would then represent the baker Eurysaces and his wife, who has been identified as a certain Atistia on the basis of another Latin inscription found at the site.

The head of the female figure (Atistia?) was stolen in 1934; in the present installation, the head has been replaced by a plaster reproduction based on photographs.

See the Tomb of Eurysaces (Sep. Eurysacis) on Pleiades
Porta Maggiore on Pleiades
Rome on Pleiades

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

The tomb dates to the end of the Roman Late Republican period, ca. 40-30 BCE. It is located where the Via Praenestina and Via Labicana leave the city of Rome to the east; in the modern city it makes up part of the Porta Maggiore complex, although it predates the construction of the aqueducts and the Aurelian Walls that created the gate. It is constructed in concrete masonry faced with travertine, on a foundation of volcanic tuff. A Latin inscription identifies the structure as the tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, a baker and contractor, almost certainly a freedman (libertus). The full length relief of a man and woman found at the site is reasonably connected with the tomb, and would then represent the baker Eurysaces and his wife, who has been identified as a certain Atistia on the basis of another Latin inscription found at the site.

The model was created for the Mostra Augustea della Romanità in 1937.

See the Tomb of Eurysaces (Sep. Eurysacis) on Pleiades
Porta Maggiore on Pleiades
Rome on Pleiades

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Museo della Civiltà Romana
Inv. MCR 2198

The tomb dates to the end of the Roman Late Republican period, ca. 40-30 BCE. It is located where the Via Praenestina and Via Labicana leave the city of Rome to the east; in the modern city it makes up part of the Porta Maggiore complex, although it predates the construction of the aqueducts and the Aurelian Walls that created the gate. It is constructed in concrete masonry faced with travertine, on a foundation of volcanic tuff. A Latin inscription identifies the structure as the tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, a baker and contractor, almost certainly a freedman (libertus). The full length relief of a man and woman found at the site is reasonably connected with the tomb, and would then represent the baker Eurysaces and his wife, who has been identified as a certain Atistia on the basis of another Latin inscription found at the site.

The head of the female figure (Atistia?) was stolen in 1934; in the present installation, the head has been replaced by a plaster reproduction based on photographs.

See the Tomb of Eurysaces (Sep. Eurysacis) on Pleiades
Porta Maggiore on Pleiades
Rome on Pleiades

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

The tomb dates to the end of the Roman Late Republican period, ca. 40-30 BCE. It is located where the Via Praenestina and Via Labicana leave the city of Rome to the east; in the modern city it makes up part of the Porta Maggiore complex, although it predates the construction of the aqueducts and the Aurelian Walls that created the gate. It is constructed in concrete masonry faced with travertine, on a foundation of volcanic tuff. A Latin inscription identifies the structure as the tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, a baker and contractor, almost certainly a freedman (libertus). The full length relief of a man and woman found at the site is reasonably connected with the tomb, and would then represent the baker Eurysaces and his wife, who has been identified as a certain Atistia on the basis of another Latin inscription found at the site.

The model was created for the Mostra Augustea della Romanità in 1937.

See the Tomb of Eurysaces (Sep. Eurysacis) on Pleiades
Porta Maggiore on Pleiades
Rome on Pleiades

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Museo della Civiltà Romana
Inv. MCR 2198

The tomb dates to the end of the Roman Late Republican period, ca. 40-30 BCE. It is located where the Via Praenestina and Via Labicana leave the city of Rome to the east; in the modern city it makes up part of the Porta Maggiore complex, although it predates the construction of the aqueducts and the Aurelian Walls that created the gate. It is constructed in concrete masonry faced with travertine, on a foundation of volcanic tuff. A Latin inscription identifies the structure as the tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, a baker and contractor, almost certainly a freedman (libertus). The full length relief of a man and woman found at the site is reasonably connected with the tomb, and would then represent the baker Eurysaces and his wife, who has been identified as a certain Atistia on the basis of another Latin inscription found at the site.

The head of the female figure (Atistia?) was stolen in 1934; in the present installation, the head has been replaced by a plaster reproduction based on photographs.

See the Tomb of Eurysaces (Sep. Eurysacis) on Pleiades
Porta Maggiore on Pleiades
Rome on Pleiades

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

The tomb dates to the end of the Roman Late Republican period, ca. 40-30 BCE. It is located where the Via Praenestina and Via Labicana leave the city of Rome to the east; in the modern city it makes up part of the Porta Maggiore complex, although it predates the construction of the aqueducts and the Aurelian Walls that created the gate. It is constructed in concrete masonry faced with travertine, on a foundation of volcanic tuff. A Latin inscription identifies the structure as the tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, a baker and contractor, almost certainly a freedman (libertus). The full length relief of a man and woman found at the site is reasonably connected with the tomb, and would then represent the baker Eurysaces and his wife, who has been identified as a certain Atistia on the basis of another Latin inscription found at the site.

The model was created for the Mostra Augustea della Romanità in 1937.

See the Tomb of Eurysaces (Sep. Eurysacis) on Pleiades
Porta Maggiore on Pleiades
Rome on Pleiades

Photographed on display in the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
In the collection of the Museo della Civiltà Romana
Inv. MCR 2198