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 (not on display)
 
Credits
The British Museum

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
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.

Subject
Portrait head of Cleopatra VII, daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes and queen with her brother Ptolemy XIII.

Accession number 1976.10
White, slightly yellowish marble
29.5 x 16 x 22.5
Third quarter of the 1st century B.C.

Provenance
Found on the Via Appia

Placement
Altes Museum (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Altes Museum

Subject
Front of a sarcophagus with the nine Muses accompanied by Apollo and Athena. On the lid, bearing an inscription in the middle, you see philosophers, poets and the Muses.

Accession number SK 844
White marble
51 x 205.3 cm (front of the sarcophagus). 22 x 205.3 cm (lid)
End of the 2nd century A.D./ beginning of the 3rd century A.D.

Provenance
Found on the Via Appia

Placement
Altes Museum (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Altes Museum

Subject
Funerary relief of the freedman Publius Aiedius Amphio and Aiedia Fausta Melior, his wife, whose names are inscribed in the epigraph at the base.

Accession number SK 840
Marble
64.5 x 102 x 24 cm
Third quarter of the 1st century B.C.

Provenance
Found on the Via Appia

Placement
Altes Museum (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Credits
Altes Museum