Child goose Altemps Inv8565bis

Palazzo Altemps (Museo Nazionale Romano), Rome, Italy

Artist/Maker Copy of Boethos of Chalcedon

Child strangling a goose. Luna marble, Roman copy from the Hadrianic period after a Greek original from the 2nd century BC. The child's head and the neck of the goose are restorations.

Dimensions Unspecified

Credit line Cesi Collection; Ludovisi Collection

Accession number Inv. 8565 bis

Location First floor

Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)

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