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Curatorial note
The enrichment on a similar decorative pillar, built into the wall of the Museo Chiaramonti as a support for a sculpture ledge, is quite close to the odd sides of this fragment1. There are examples in the Antiquario of the Villa Hadriana (e.g. no. 419, enriched with ivy leaves and therefore the rectangular counterpart of circular shaft,m1016 (Vermeule 132), and on a trip through the Vatican magazines the cataloguer counted about 25 square or rectangular, triangular, and circular shafts which have so many exact parallels at Hadrian's Villa as to be chiefly from that source.
1W. Amelung, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1903-08, Volume 1 - 1903; volume 2 - 1908, I, p. 407, no. E 149 (and descr.), pl. 42.
1W. Amelung, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, Berlin, 1903-08, Volume 1 - 1903; volume 2 - 1908, I, p. 407, no. E 149 (and descr.), pl. 42.
Shown in Drg. 1813.l.
Literature
Ward Penkins, Journal of Roman Studies, XLII, 1952, p.30, no 55.
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