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Lunette with Nereid riding Triton

Lunette with Nereid riding Triton





Artist : Anonymous


Date : approx. between 100 and 125

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Purchase (1993)
Item 101 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Sculpture

Vitrine : V08

Area related
Empire romain

Description   

The relief must have been one of a series that decorated a public building or perhaps a grand funerary monument. The iconography derives from a passage in Iliad that describes the Nereid Thetis, mother of the hero Achilles, or other Nereids carrying newly forged armor to her son.
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Lunette with Nereid riding Triton
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