Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas - In the triangular field of the pediment is depicted a naked young man identified as Dionysus with a deer skin slung over his shoulder and his head crowned with vine leaves holding a cylindrical object in his hands, on his sides are depicted two tritons playing the lyre - The construction of the tomb, as other inscriptions testify, dates back to between the principality of Tiberius and that of Claudius (14-51 AD), but it continued to be used later, in the Flavian age (69-96 AD), when the mosaic of Pomponius Hylas and some changes to the decorative apparatus, up
Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas - In the triangular field of the pediment is depicted a naked young man identified as Dionysus with a deer skin slung over his shoulder and his head crowned with vine leaves holding a cylindrical object in his hands, on his sides are depicted two tritons playing the lyre - The construction of the tomb, as other inscriptions testify, dates back to between the principality of Tiberius and that of Claudius (14-51 AD), but it continued to be used later, in the Flavian age (69-96 AD), when the mosaic of Pomponius Hylas and some changes to the decorative apparatus, up to the Antonine age (138-161 AD) - Parco degli Scipioni, Rome, Italy
Size: 5105px × 3829px
Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Photo credit: © Stefano Ravera / Alamy / Afripics
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