Marble lunette with Nereid riding Triton 1st quarter of 2nd century Roman This relief must have been one of a series that decorated a public building or perhaps a grand funerary monument. The iconography derives from a passage in The Iliad that describes the Nereid Thetis, mother of the hero Achilles, and other Nereids carrying newly forged armor to her son. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #1245. Marble lunette with Nereid riding Triton, Part 2 Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcript for this audio track is not available at
Marble lunette with Nereid riding Triton 1st quarter of 2nd century Roman This relief must have been one of a series that decorated a public building or perhaps a grand funerary monument. The iconography derives from a passage in The Iliad that describes the Nereid Thetis, mother of the hero Achilles, and other Nereids carrying newly forged armor to her son. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #1245. Marble lunette with Nereid riding Triton, Part 2 Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcript for this audio track is not available at this time. We are working to make it available as soon as Marble lunette with Nereid riding Triton. Roman. 1st quarter of 2nd century Marble. Mid-Imperial, Trajanic. Stone Sculpture
Size: 4000px × 2699px
Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
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