Statuette of a water-carrier

Statuetta di portatrice d’acqua (idrofora)
Type: 
Sculpture
Year: 
Roman work inspired by a Greek original from the early 5th century B.C.
Material and technique: 
Rosso antico marble
Origin: 
From Poggio Mirteto, Latium
Inventory: 
Inv. MB 115

Found at Poggio Mirteto, in the land of the Sabines, in a small temple dedicated to Iuppiter Liber, a deity who represented a combination of Jove and Dionysus. The statuette is Roman-era work inspired by 5th-century B.C. Greek models.

The hall

Room 6 displays numerous original Greek reliefs and sculptures, some votive works and others funerary.