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GALLERIA 32-36
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32. GRIFFIN SERVING AS ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT (pi, 35).
H. -665 m. Luna marble. Restored: most of ears and end of beak; much
patched and re-worked.
Probably the support of a table.
Provenance unknown.
33. HEAD OF HORSE (pi. 36).
H. -32 m., length -30. Pentelic marble. Unrestored.
This fragment shows careful and detailed work and a remarkable
naturalism in the treatment of the parts about the eye, and of the flesh of
the nostrils, but the chiselling is rather dry. Hellenistic work of the
Roman period (Flavian ?).
Provenance unknown.
34. STATUE OF FORTUNA (pi. 36).
The goddess stands with her weight on her r. leg, with her head
slightly inclined to the r. In her 1. hand is a cornucopiae, while her
r. arm, broken away below the shoulder, was resting on the rudder that
appears at her r. side. She wears a high y/<yb%<372^ a long <Az'A73, high-
girdled, and an AA<2/?b7? which is drawn over the and then
brought round across the middle of the body and gathered under her
1. arm. On the feet are soft leather shoes. The face is empty and
expressionless. Eye-pupils not indicated. The statue is simitar in
general type to nos. 27, 31. Probably of the first century A.D.
Provenance unknown.
34 a. ALTAR TO THE BONA DEA GALBILLA (pi. 36).
H. 1-06 m., Br. .38 m., L. .46 m. Marble, jypgAgZp. Unrestored.
A square frame with plain mouldings encloses the inscription. On
the r. side is a yaAra, on the 1. an Mrrgay. The top of the altar is
decorated in front by two double floral volutes with rosettes, and on each
side by the usual
Found in Via di Porta S. Paolo (now della Marmorata) by the Arco
di S. Lazzaro.
Stevenson, 7?z;/7 7. 7zzj7 (1880), pp. $8 ff. Cf. for the local name Mommsen in
C. 7. Z., and Peter in Roscher, s. v. Tfpzza 7V%, and on the Horrea Galbiana, Gatti,
Zp'772. 7777 i (1886), pp. 63 ff.
C. 7.7. vi. 30833.
35. HIND'S HEAD (pi. 36).
H. -27 m., Br. -42 m. Luna marble. Restored : ears, mouth, and horns.
Owing to its condition, a piece of no importance.
Provenance unknown.
36. HIND, ONCE FORMING PART OF A GROUP (pi. 34).
L. (including restoration, to 1. hind foot) 1.03m. Base: II. (average) .40m.,
L. 1-06 m., Br. -40 m. Parian marble. Restored (in plaster): mouth, nose, both
ears, knee of 1. foreleg, tip of tail. Missing : r. foreleg (made separately), part of
1. ear. A nearly rectangular section (L. -14 m., Br. -24 m.) tooled or broken away
from 1. corner of base at back.
Hind lying on ground to 1. with 1. foreleg and r. hind leg bent under
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32. GRIFFIN SERVING AS ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT (pi, 35).
H. -665 m. Luna marble. Restored: most of ears and end of beak; much
patched and re-worked.
Probably the support of a table.
Provenance unknown.
33. HEAD OF HORSE (pi. 36).
H. -32 m., length -30. Pentelic marble. Unrestored.
This fragment shows careful and detailed work and a remarkable
naturalism in the treatment of the parts about the eye, and of the flesh of
the nostrils, but the chiselling is rather dry. Hellenistic work of the
Roman period (Flavian ?).
Provenance unknown.
34. STATUE OF FORTUNA (pi. 36).
The goddess stands with her weight on her r. leg, with her head
slightly inclined to the r. In her 1. hand is a cornucopiae, while her
r. arm, broken away below the shoulder, was resting on the rudder that
appears at her r. side. She wears a high y/<yb%<372^ a long <Az'A73, high-
girdled, and an AA<2/?b7? which is drawn over the and then
brought round across the middle of the body and gathered under her
1. arm. On the feet are soft leather shoes. The face is empty and
expressionless. Eye-pupils not indicated. The statue is simitar in
general type to nos. 27, 31. Probably of the first century A.D.
Provenance unknown.
34 a. ALTAR TO THE BONA DEA GALBILLA (pi. 36).
H. 1-06 m., Br. .38 m., L. .46 m. Marble, jypgAgZp. Unrestored.
A square frame with plain mouldings encloses the inscription. On
the r. side is a yaAra, on the 1. an Mrrgay. The top of the altar is
decorated in front by two double floral volutes with rosettes, and on each
side by the usual
Found in Via di Porta S. Paolo (now della Marmorata) by the Arco
di S. Lazzaro.
Stevenson, 7?z;/7 7. 7zzj7 (1880), pp. $8 ff. Cf. for the local name Mommsen in
C. 7. Z., and Peter in Roscher, s. v. Tfpzza 7V%, and on the Horrea Galbiana, Gatti,
Zp'772. 7777 i (1886), pp. 63 ff.
C. 7.7. vi. 30833.
35. HIND'S HEAD (pi. 36).
H. -27 m., Br. -42 m. Luna marble. Restored : ears, mouth, and horns.
Owing to its condition, a piece of no importance.
Provenance unknown.
36. HIND, ONCE FORMING PART OF A GROUP (pi. 34).
L. (including restoration, to 1. hind foot) 1.03m. Base: II. (average) .40m.,
L. 1-06 m., Br. -40 m. Parian marble. Restored (in plaster): mouth, nose, both
ears, knee of 1. foreleg, tip of tail. Missing : r. foreleg (made separately), part of
1. ear. A nearly rectangular section (L. -14 m., Br. -24 m.) tooled or broken away
from 1. corner of base at back.
Hind lying on ground to 1. with 1. foreleg and r. hind leg bent under