National Archeological Museum in Naples

June 16, 2010

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Much of this sculpture collection was collected in Rome during the 16^th century by the Farnese family. This legacy of ancient marble sculpture was taken from the Baths of Caracalla, the Forum and the Palatine, was purchased from the del Bufalo family, confiscated (stolen) from several family’s and inherited from Margaret of Austria (widow of Alessandro de’ Medici). The sculpture was used in Rome and Parma by the Farnese family and was transferred to Naples by Ferdinand I, the King of the Two Sicilies. It then became the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Naples. Many of the other pieces were taken from Pompeii and other sites.

National Archeological Museum building in Naples	Apollo seated with lyre - 2nd C. AD	Warrior on horseback - 2nd C. AD copy of a Greek original of the 2nd C. BCK	Dionysus and Eros - 2nd C. AD
Eros, Centocelle-type - Late 2nd C. AD copy of a Greek original 4th C. BC	Pan and Daphne - Late 2nd C. AD copy of a Rhodes original from the late 2nd C. BC	Warrior, the so-called Vulneratus deficiens - 2nd C. AD copy of a Greek original of the mid 5th C. BC	Eros with dolphin - 2nd C. AD	Artemis of Ephesus (queen of nature and mistress of the beasts) - 2nd C. AD
Artemis of Ephesus (queen of nature and mistress of the beasts) - 2nd C. AD	Kneeling barbarian - early 1st C. ADK	Fortuna-Isis restored as the young Faustina - 2nd C. AD	Portrait of the Younger Octavia, sister of Augustus - early 1st C. AD	The so-called Pomona or Flor Minor with Dan for scale - 2nd C AD - from the Baths of Caracalla
The 'Farnese Cup' make of one piece of four-layer sardonyx agate some time in the 1st C. BC in Alexandria	Roman agate cameos	The so-called Flora Maior - Roman 2nd C. AD - from the Baths of Caracalla	The torment of Dirce "the Farnese Bull" - from the Baths of Caracalla (carved from one block of marble)	The torment of Dirce "the Farnese Bull" - from the Baths of Caracalla (originally a fountain)
The torment of Dirce "the Farnese Bull" - from the Baths of Caracalla	a colossal head of Julius Caesar found in Trajan's Forum - Early 2nd C. AD	Claudius - AD 41-54	The so-called Seated Agrippina - Roman reworking, 1st C. AD, of a Greek 5th C. BC	Suirassed figure with an unrelated head of Lucius Verus - Body AD 50-75, head AD 160-169
Marcus Aurelius as a youth - AD 147-151	The Emperor Caracalla - AD 212 from the baths of Caracalla	Marcus Aurelius - AD 170-180	The so-called Servilius Ahala one of very few bronzes to have survived - 1st C. BC	the "Sarcophagus of the Brothers" with togate men and female figures - mid 3rd C. AD
Lion from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (with Christy for scale) – early 2nd C. AD	A balance from Pompeii	A balance from Pompeii	Medical instruments from Pompeii
A bronze flute from Pompeii	A bronze lamp from Pompeii	Bronze valves from Pompeii	Bronze keys from Pompeii	Bronze hinges from Pompeii
	A seven wicked lamp from Pompeii		Bronze cooking implements from Pompeii	Silver eating vessels from Pompeii
Silver eating things from Pompeii		Bronze with gold inlay vessels from Pompeii		Glass vessel from Pompeii