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Relief carving with rustic scene
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Relief carving with rustic scene

Fine-grained white marble, second half of 1st cent. B.C.
Otricoli
Vatican City, Museo Pio Clementino, inv. 365

The presence of the temple seems to suggest a small rural sanctuary, enclosed within its tèmenos (precinct), before which stood a fountain where animals underwent purification before being sacrificed.