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New Greek and Roman Galleries at the Met

View of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, Roman sculpture, first century BC – second century AD
View of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, Roman sculpture, first century BC–second century AD. Photograph: Metropolitan Museum of Art
View of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, with marble statue of the youthful Hercules
View 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 Art
Frescoes from a cubiculum nocturnum (bedroom)
Frescoes 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
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 Art
Frescoes 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)
Frescoes 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
Cameo portrait of the emperor Augustus
Cameo 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 Art
Portrait statue of an aristocratic boy
Portrait 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 Art
Portrait of the emperor Caracalla
Portrait 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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