Pluto Sculpture in the Getty Villa, July 2008

Pluto
Roman, 1-100 AD
Marble

Inventory # 71.AA.438

Pluto (Hades to the Greeks) was the Roman god of the Underworld. He is depicted here in the guise of Plouton, a Greek deity associated with wealth and agrarian abundance. The mature, bearded figure stands draped in a long cloak. A large cornucopia (now broken) rests in his left arm as a symbol of prosperity. Although sculpted in the Roman era, this statuette is modeled after a Greek work of the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC).

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.