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Relief carving "of the Aglaurides"
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

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.