Statue of Mars, god of war, naked except for a helmet, shield, rod and cape. The Lakonian sword indicates that he was a Spartan. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.

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