Column with Egyptising reliefs
Type:
Elemento architettonico
Year:
Beginning of imperial age
Material and technique:
Granite
Size:
cm 470
Origin:
From Rome, Iseum of Campus Martius
Inventory:
inv. MC0013
Masterpieces of the hall
The hall
The large central niche in the end wall features a large fountain with the colossal statue of a River god, known as Marforio.
The three large grey granite pillars with a relief frieze portraying Egyptian high priests originate from the sanctuary of Isis and Serapis in the Campus Martius.
