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Faun with basket of grapes
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Faun with basket of grapes

Coarse-grained white marble, 2nd cent. A.D.
Rome, Esquiline, Horti Lamiani, Villa Palombara
Rome, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori, inv. 1138

This sculpture, dating from the Antonine period, was found in 1875 in the residential section of the Horti Lamiani.