Relief carving "of the Aglaurides"
Medium-grain white marble, first half of 2nd cent. A.D. Rome, Esquiline, Horti Lamiani, Villa Palombara Vatican City, Museo Chiaramonti, inv. 1284
This relief carving, a neo-Attic (or neo-Attic imitation) work from the time of the Emperor Hadrian, represents three young women, traditionally identified as the daughters of Kekrops, the mythological first king of Athens and Attica, and of Aglauros.
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