Statue of Hygeia

Statua di Igea
Type: 
Sculpture
Year: 
1st century BC
Material and technique: 
Marble
Size: 
cm 211
Origin: 
From Rome, Esquiline (1875)
Inventory: 
inv. MC0899

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Museo del Palazzo dei Conservatori - Sale degli Horti Tauriani - Vettiani

The vastness and splendour of the home of Statilius Taurus, an eminent personality in the Rome of the I century AD, was perhaps at the heart of his conviction for magic, apparently inspired by Agrippina so as to seize the property for the Imperial domain. 
The area of the Horti was later broken up into a number of properties and under Gallienus in the middle of the III century AD went back to being a part of the Horti Liciniani; it has also been discovered that in late antiquity the home of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (Horti Vettiani) was there.

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