Marble: Did you mean...?

Mixed portraiture type: Baiae & Imperatori 32. From c. 128 CE (Carthage) The photograph was taken during the exhibition “L’image et le pouvoir. Le siècle des Antonins” (Image and power. The age of the Antonines...

Located in the Forum Romanum, the picture illustrates a broken piece of marble and the wonderfully preserved condition of the stonemason's handiwork. Not sure where this piece came from originally but its remains were located...

A stone version of a mask used in Greek comic theatre. Contorted features were typical in theatre masks and this one represents a slave. Pentellic marble (2nd century BCE). Found in Athens near the Dipylon Gate (National...

Marble plaque depicting a 'parturition', or birthing scene, excavated in Ostia, Italy, c. 400 BCE to 300 CE. Such scenes eased the fears of expectant mothers by depicting positive birthing images. During this...

Marble portrait of Alexander the Great, 2nd-1st century BCE, said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. (British Museum, London)

The head of the colossal marble statue of Hadrian was found at the Sagalassos Roman Baths complex in 2007 and is now exhibited at the Burdur Museum.

A marble plaque from Tegea depicting Pluto, Demeter and Persephone with worshippers. 4th-3rd century BCE. (National Archaeological Musem, Athens)

Marble statue of Scylla, a monstrous sea goddess who haunted the rocks of a narrow strait opposite the whirlpool daemon Charybdis (Kharybdis). Ships that sailed too close to her rocks would lose six men to her ravenous, darting...

A 2nd century CE Roman marble statue of the Egyptian god Osiris. (Palazzo Altemps, Rome)

Marble head of Germanicus, found in 1844 in the heart of the city of Beziers (France) where the ancient Forum of Colonia Julia Baeterrae Septimanorum stood. Ca. 14-23 CE. Now in Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse.