Colossal statue of Mars: Pyrrhus
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
110 - 138 century II AD
Material and technique:
Marble
Size:
alt. cm 360
Inventory:
S 58
The statue represents Marte: the bearded god wears a tall Corinthian helmet, an anatomical cuirass decorated with a pair of facing griffins and triple row of lower pteryges, decorated with masks, palmettes and animal protomes.
There is a recent consensus to attribute the statue to a copy of the depiction of Marte Ultore (vendicatore), the god to whom the temple in the Foro di Augusto was dedicated.
Masterpieces of the hall
The hall
Along the walls of the long porticoed ground-floor corridor opening onto the Courtyard there are large niches with statues, including colossal representations of Minerva and Mars.
