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GALLERIA SUPERIORE 1. 23—II. 1
23. MOSAIC WITH FISH (pi. 109).
H.-62m., Br.-p2m.
Water, light and dark green. A red fish (A<?;w<27;;;y) swims upward
to 1. The heads of two others and the tail of a fourth are visible. Above
(as now placed), brown Ray fish (ZH/^Z?
See on no. 4.
NOTE.—The illustration of this no. is inverted.
II. SCULPTURES.
1. VOTIVE RELIEF TO HERCULES, JUPITER, AND THE
GENIUS OF THE CAELIAN HlLL (pi. 112).
^H.-82 m., Br. -88 m. Luna marble. Restored (in marble): Jupiter—nose,
r. forearm, hand, and thunderbolt, 1. forearm, hand, and upper two-thirds of
sceptre. Heracles : nose, r. forefinger, 1. forearm, and hand with apples. Genius :
nose, and 1. forefinger ; (in plaster): edges of relief. The moulded frame is modern.
On the 1. is Hercules, nude and bearded, his r. hand on his club
reversed, which rests on a rock, and his 1. arm bent at the elbow with
lion's skin hanging from it. His weight is on the 1. leg and the r. is
drawn to the side. His head resembles that of Commodus (see on Ur/.
Z<27?;., no. 20), with hair much drilled and pupils incised. In the centre
is Jupiter with weight on r. leg, r. hand (restored) extended with thunder-
bolt, and 1. hand leaning on sceptre. A cloak hangs on his 1. shoulder,
his pupils are incised, and his hair stands upright like that of the Zeus of
Otricoli. Between them stands Jupiter's eagle (head broken off) and a tree
(ilex ?). On the r. the Genius of the Caelian Hill, with a mantle thrown
round his lower limbs, sits on a rock under a tree round which his 1. arm
is placed while the r. rests on his lap. The figures are identified by
inscriptions, that under Hercules reading HERCVLt IVLtANO. Hercules
had a cult on the Caelian (cf. Jordan-Hulsen, i. 3, p. 227),
and the epithet might be connected with the Aqua Julia, a branch of
which supplied the hill with water. (Frontin, ii. 76, cf. Jordan-Hulsen,
rz'/., p. 228 f!)
First mentioned by Marliani, (1534), f- 122, as being in
the vineyard of Cardinal Sadoleto on the Quirinal, where it was drawn by
Pighio. Fanno, zDzzAbzz'b (1548), p. up, mentions a report that it was
found in or near this vineyard, near an ancient aqueduct on the side of
the Quirinal towards the Viminal. It was seen in the same vineyard by
Ligorio (Z?<?Z/. Gzzzczz. Zb/., 138!., 42U. In Dosio's time (&. 2'77/hz, and
cf. Htilsen, HzAswzzb, vii. 344) it was in the house of Achille Maffei near
the Arco della Ciambella. In the seventeenth century it was at Florence
in the gardens of the Gaddi family, for whom it may have been bought
by Dosio (Htilsen, Ar. <rz'/.), and was purchased in 1887 from a Florentine
dealer for the municipality of Rome (Z?z;//. Gw;., Ar. rz'/.).
Drawings: Cod. Pigh. f. iA (Z^z^z^T* .ZAzAZA (1868), p. 188, no. 63);
Dosio, Cod. Marucell., f. 137L
Beger, ZArrzzAj Z7bzzAzzj, 29; ZzzA. dwz. xv (T88y), pp. 314 ff., pi. XIX;
Reinach, ZZAA, iii. 200. 3 ; A. B. Cook, Zz-zzr, ii (1923), p. 400, fig. 303.
C. Z. Z. vi. 334 = 30739; Dessau, 3080.
23. MOSAIC WITH FISH (pi. 109).
H.-62m., Br.-p2m.
Water, light and dark green. A red fish (A<?;w<27;;;y) swims upward
to 1. The heads of two others and the tail of a fourth are visible. Above
(as now placed), brown Ray fish (ZH/^Z?
See on no. 4.
NOTE.—The illustration of this no. is inverted.
II. SCULPTURES.
1. VOTIVE RELIEF TO HERCULES, JUPITER, AND THE
GENIUS OF THE CAELIAN HlLL (pi. 112).
^H.-82 m., Br. -88 m. Luna marble. Restored (in marble): Jupiter—nose,
r. forearm, hand, and thunderbolt, 1. forearm, hand, and upper two-thirds of
sceptre. Heracles : nose, r. forefinger, 1. forearm, and hand with apples. Genius :
nose, and 1. forefinger ; (in plaster): edges of relief. The moulded frame is modern.
On the 1. is Hercules, nude and bearded, his r. hand on his club
reversed, which rests on a rock, and his 1. arm bent at the elbow with
lion's skin hanging from it. His weight is on the 1. leg and the r. is
drawn to the side. His head resembles that of Commodus (see on Ur/.
Z<27?;., no. 20), with hair much drilled and pupils incised. In the centre
is Jupiter with weight on r. leg, r. hand (restored) extended with thunder-
bolt, and 1. hand leaning on sceptre. A cloak hangs on his 1. shoulder,
his pupils are incised, and his hair stands upright like that of the Zeus of
Otricoli. Between them stands Jupiter's eagle (head broken off) and a tree
(ilex ?). On the r. the Genius of the Caelian Hill, with a mantle thrown
round his lower limbs, sits on a rock under a tree round which his 1. arm
is placed while the r. rests on his lap. The figures are identified by
inscriptions, that under Hercules reading HERCVLt IVLtANO. Hercules
had a cult on the Caelian (cf. Jordan-Hulsen, i. 3, p. 227),
and the epithet might be connected with the Aqua Julia, a branch of
which supplied the hill with water. (Frontin, ii. 76, cf. Jordan-Hulsen,
rz'/., p. 228 f!)
First mentioned by Marliani, (1534), f- 122, as being in
the vineyard of Cardinal Sadoleto on the Quirinal, where it was drawn by
Pighio. Fanno, zDzzAbzz'b (1548), p. up, mentions a report that it was
found in or near this vineyard, near an ancient aqueduct on the side of
the Quirinal towards the Viminal. It was seen in the same vineyard by
Ligorio (Z?<?Z/. Gzzzczz. Zb/., 138!., 42U. In Dosio's time (&. 2'77/hz, and
cf. Htilsen, HzAswzzb, vii. 344) it was in the house of Achille Maffei near
the Arco della Ciambella. In the seventeenth century it was at Florence
in the gardens of the Gaddi family, for whom it may have been bought
by Dosio (Htilsen, Ar. <rz'/.), and was purchased in 1887 from a Florentine
dealer for the municipality of Rome (Z?z;//. Gw;., Ar. rz'/.).
Drawings: Cod. Pigh. f. iA (Z^z^z^T* .ZAzAZA (1868), p. 188, no. 63);
Dosio, Cod. Marucell., f. 137L
Beger, ZArrzzAj Z7bzzAzzj, 29; ZzzA. dwz. xv (T88y), pp. 314 ff., pi. XIX;
Reinach, ZZAA, iii. 200. 3 ; A. B. Cook, Zz-zzr, ii (1923), p. 400, fig. 303.
C. Z. Z. vi. 334 = 30739; Dessau, 3080.