Relief with a Sacred Landscape in the Capitoline Museum, July 2012

Relief Representing a Sacred Landscape

Pentelic Marble

From the Horti Maecenatiani, found in the area near the Auditorium in 1876.

Inventory # MC1426

This relief represents a temple enclosed in a sacred area which is surrounded by a high wall from which some drapes are hung. Some votive object and a large knotty tree outline the setting of the sacred space. This work is to be dated between the first century BC and the first century AD.

Text from the Capitoline Museum label.