Trapezoforo
Trapezoforo
3D
Published 2019-06-27T12:10:10+00:00
This table support was transferred to Naples from the Villa Madama and was the subject of numerous restoration by Carlo Albacini.
The sculptural decoration is developed completely in the round of the frontal part of the screen, bounded at top and bottom by moulded cornices, while on the sides it is carved in high relief. On it is depicted the Homeric myth of Scylla gripping Ulysses' sailors. The sea-monster that emerges from the woman's body, her arm thrown haphazardly over her head, encircles in the loops of her fish-like tail the lifeless body of a man. Meanwhile the three dogs' heads that emerge from her stomach wreak destruction on other shipwercked sailors who struggle in the waves. A centaur is depicted on the opposite side, her nebride moving in the wind, a reed in her left hand and a small cupid seated on her back. Above her is an eagle holding a snake in its talons.
This table support, whose decoration can be compared with the famous Scylla group found in the Grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga, can be dated around the middle of the 2nd century AD.
| Date published | 27/06/2019 |
| Title | Trapezoforo |
| Date | Mid-2nd century AD |
| Accession | Inv. 6672 |
| Record | https://www.museoarcheologiconapoli.it/en/ |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli |
3 cm ΣΚΎΛΛΑ Σκύλλα σκύλλα Σκύλες της Λύσσας