View of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, Roman sculpture, first century BC–second century AD. Photograph: Metropolitan Museum of ArtView of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, with marble statue of the youthful Hercules. Roman, Flavian period, AD 69-98. Adaptation of a Greek statue type of the 4th century BC. Photograph: Gift of Mrs Frederick F Thompson/Metropolitan Museum of ArtFrescoes from a cubiculum nocturnum (bedroom). Roman, Late Republican, ca. 50-40 BC. From the villa of P Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, near Pompeii. 8 ft. 8-1/2 in. x 10 ft. 11-1/2 in x 19 ft. 7-1/8 in. (265.4 x 334 x 583.9 cm) Photograph: Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.13 a-g)/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Head of a woman. Greek, south Italian, Tarentine, Hellenistic, third - second century BC. Terracotta, h. 10-1/2 in. (26.7 cm). Photograph: Rogers Fund, 1923 (23.160.95)/The Metropolitan Museum of ArtFrescoes from a cubiculum nocturnum (bedroom). Roman, Late Republican, ca. 50-40 BC. From the villa of P Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, near Pompeii. 8 ft. 8-1/2 in. x 10 ft. 11-1/2 in x 19 ft. 7-1/8 in. (265.4 x 334 x 583.9 cm)Photograph: Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.13 a-g)/The Metropolitan Museum of ArtCameo portrait of the emperor Augustus. Roman, Claudian, AD 41-54 Sardonyx, h. 1-1/2 in. (3.8 cm). Photograph: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942 (42.11.30)/The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPortrait statue of an aristocratic boy. Roman, Augustan, 27 BC-AD 14. Bronze, h. 52-1/8 in. (132.4 cm). Photograph: Rogers Fund, 1914 (14.130.1)/The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPortrait of the emperor Caracalla. Roman, Severan, AD 212-217. Marble, h. 14-1/4 in. (36.2 cm). Photograph: Samuel D Lee Fund, 1940, (40.11.1a)/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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