Male bust

Busto maschile
Type: 
Sculpture
Year: 
Mid IInd century AD
Material and technique: 
Marble
Size: 
cm 59
Origin: 
Rome, Quirinale tunnel (1901)
Inventory: 
MC1790

Masterpieces of the hall

The hall

Sala Caldaie - Domus di Fulvio Plauziano

During the excavations for the creation of the tunnel under the Quirinale at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, the remains of a house were found, attributed to Fulvius Plauziano, the prefect of the Praetorian Guard under Septimus Severus, on the basis of an inscription legible on the lead water-piping.
Elements of the sculptural decoration, statues and busts, relief and portrait slabs, were found, still in place inside the rooms, the floors of which were laid in marble and mosaics.