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Boy with a goose
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Boy with a goose

White marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Oplontis excavations
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 70056, 74987

This statue was found, along with those of the four centaurs, in a storeroom where it had been placed during renovation work on the villa. It too was a decorative element for a fountain, as shown by the presence of a pipe passing through the boy's body and ending in the goose's mouth.