Landscape Relief with Still Life in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, October 2009

Landscape Relief with Still Life
Early Roman Imperial period, first century AD
Marble

# 1979.613

A spiny lobster and a basket containing a dye murex and astragals stand in front of a shrine enclosing a tree, from which hang two plucked birds. The animals are probably offerings, and the god worshipped may have been the rustic fertility god Priapus.

Text from the MFA label.