Ancient garden from Babylon to Rome
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Representation of a garden adorned with hermae
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Representation of a garden adorned with hermae

Alabastrine plaster cast, c. 1930
Rome, Museo della Civiltą Romana, inv. M.C.R. 2127

The top frame represents a garden embellished by hermae and well-trimmed hedges.
The original relief carving, dating from the 2nd century A.D., is kept in the Vatican Museums.