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Nike

White marble, late 1st cent. B.C. - early 1st cent. A.D.
Oplontis excavations
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 72798

The statue represents Victory. On her shoulders can be seen the holes for fastening the bronze wings to the body. Found in its original place along with the other Nike exhibited here, it was one of the decorative elements of the great pool, framed in a splendid natural setting.