Subject
Relief representing Homer in the presence of Zeus, Apollo and the Muses: in the scene the poet is honoured and crowned in front of several personifications. The find, bearing the name of the sculptor Archelaos of Priene, dates back to the Ptolemaic age and it was probably produced in Alexandria, Egypt.
 
Accession number 1819,0812.1
Marble
Height approximately 1.21 m; width approximately 0.76 m
225-205 B.C. (reign of Ptolemy Philopator)
 
Provenance
Found on the Via Appia, at Bovillae
 
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
 
Credits
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1819-0812-1
References
C.T. Newton – E.L. Hicks – G. Hirschfeld – F.H. Marshall (eds.), The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum, I-IV, London, British Museum, 1874-1916.
 
F.N. Pryce – A.H. Smith, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892-1928.

Subject
Wall painting with representation of a standing female figure dressed in a tunic and cape and depicted while holding an umbrella.

Accession number P 60
Fresco painting
Height 33.3 cm; width 28.3 cm
Complete; restored in 2014
200/250 A.D.

Provenance
Found on the ancient Via Appia

Placement
Musée du Louvre (not on display)

Credits
Musée du Louvre

References
F. Gaultier – L. Haumesser – A. Trofimova (curated by), Un rêve d’Italie. La collection du marquis Campana, Paris, Lienart/Musée du Louvre, 2018, p. 264, n. 291.

V. Tran Tam Tinh, Catalogue des peintures romaines (Latium et Campanie) du Musée du Louvre, Paris, Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1974, p. 89, fig. 82, n. 70.

Subject
Bust of M. Ulpius Crotonensis, freedman of Trajan.

Accession number Ma 1002; MR 599; N 768
Marble in the round
Height 67 cm; width 45 cm; depth 22 cm
Complete, but the upper part of the acanthus leaf and a fragment of the left earlobe are missing.
112/117 A.D.

Provenance
Found on the Via Appia

Placement
Musée du Louvre (storage)

Credits
Musée du Louvre

References
K. de Kersauson, Musée du Louvre. Catalogue des portraits romains, Tome II: De l’année de la guerre civile, 68-69 après J.-C., à la fin de l’Empire, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, pp. 100-101, n. 38.

J.-L. Martinez, Les antiques du Musée Napoléon. Edition illustrée et commentée des volumes V et VI de l’inventaire du Louvre de 1810, Paris, RMN, 2004, p. 363, n. 0712.

Subject
Altar with the epitaph of Caius Oclatius Aprilis, in Latin (CIL VI.23221). The inscription is framed by a molding; two other boxes on the sides enclose a patera (on the right) and an oinochoe (on the left), respectively. At the top, a dentil decoration runs along all sides (except on the back of the altar).
Inscription: D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum)/ C(aio) Oclatio/ Aprili/ v(ixit) a(nnis) XXVI m(ensibus) V/ Aquillia/ Alexandria/ b(ene) m(erenti) fecit.
Translation: “Sacred to Manes; to Caius Oclatius Aprilis, (who) lived twenty-six years, five months, well-deserving, Aquillia Alexandria made (this monument)”.

Accession number MND 1738; MNDá1738; Ma 3902
Marble; engraving
Height 29 cm; width 11.5 cm; depth 7.5 cm
Intact; the letters of the inscription were repainted red
Roman imperial age

Provenance
Found in a columbarium of the Via Latina in the eighteenth century

Placement
Musée du Louvre (storage)

Credits
Musée du Louvre

References
CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (23221), Berlin, 1876-1894.

S. Ducroux, Catalogue analytique des inscriptions latines sur pierre conservées au Musée du Louvre, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1975, p. 137, n. 490.

Subject
Statue of a child playing with the goose, Roman copy of a Greek original probably dating to the 2nd century BC. The work entered the Musée du Louvre collection in 1801 and was found on the via Appia, at Villa dei Quintili. Four ancient copies are preserved in other different museums.

Accession number Ma 40; MR 168; N 223
Pentelic marble; sculpture in the round
Height 93 cm; width 69.5 cm; depth 65 cm
Incomplete work; marble additions were made by Lisandroni.
100/200 AD

Provenance
Found on the via Appia, at Villa dei Quintili

Placement
Musée du Louvre

Credits
Musée du Louvre

References
J.-L. Martinez, La Grèce au Louvre, Paris, Somogy éditions d’art, 2010, p. 173.
A. Pasquier – J.-L. Martinez, 100 chefs-d’oeuvre de la sculpture grecque au Louvre, Paris, Somogy éditions d’art, 2007, pp. 212-213.
A. Ricci, La Villa dei Quintili. Fonti scritte e fonti figurate, Roma, Lithos, 1998, p. 90, n. 21, pl. 5.