Bas-relief, Cast Of Puteal, "Altar of the 12 Gods"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: Original in Capitoline Museum, Rome.
label: Notes
content: See entry No. 449 in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, Databases, http://museum.classics.cam.ac.uk/collections/casts/circular-puteal-reliefs-deities , which seems to be another cast of the same artifact. It is identified as a "circular puteal with reliefs of deities": "A structure built at the head of a well, a puteal, is often mistaken for an altar. This puteal was formerly known as the altar of the twelve gods. Despite its Roman provenance and workmanship, it is decorated with Greek gods in procession, and is carved in a deliberately pseudo-Archaic Greek style." Material: Marble Location of Original: Rome, Capitoline Museum Size: 0.53m References: Hauser: Die Neu Attischen Reliefs (1889), 60, no. 86 Stuart-Jones: Catalogue of the Capitoline Museum (1912), 106; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076189123;view=1up;seq=118 Date: Roman Provenance: Found in the eighteenth century in a vineyard outside the Porta del Popolo, the main gate in Rome leading northwards out of the ancient city.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rome, Latium, Italy, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Roman
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026818
label: USNM Number
content: A154751-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 53 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 84 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 84 cm