Satyr fighting with giants
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
From a Hellenistic original
Material and technique:
Marble
Origin:
Rome, Porta San Lorenzo (1886)
Inventory:
MC0952
Masterpieces of the hall
The hall
At the end of the1800, during the opening of a passage for a tram line through the Aurelian Wall, near the Porta San Lorenzo, an older architectural structure was found inside, which was probably the foundation wall of a garden from the early Italian period.
It was articulated by niches plastered with pumice stones, shells and a rough mosaic, which still retain part of the original sculptural decoration.