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Ephebus
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Ephebus

White marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Oplontis excavations
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 72818

This statue too, a copy of a Greek original dating from the 5th-4th century B.C., was one of the decorative elements that stood along the eastern side of the pool.