Columned Room - the Complex of San Lorenzo
The Complex of San Lorenzo
A coherent group of sculpture in peperine (a stone from the Albani Hills), broken into fragments which were then reused in a renaissance wall, discovered near the Church of San Lorenzo.
Several of these statues, brought together in the Capitoline collections, represent female figures, Orpheus among the animals, and a barbarian; they are carefully worked, using Hellenistic models of the Pergamon school from the late IIIrd – early IVth centuries BC.
The complex should probably be associated with a temple of Herakles, as should the peperine base from the same area, inscribed with a dedication by the dictator M. Minucio, who was victorious against Hannibal in 217 BC.
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