THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Portraiture | Greek figures | Plato (427—347 BCE), Greek thinker
1. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Plato.
Marble.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
2. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Male bust (Dionysos? Plato? Dionysos-Plato? Priapus?).
Bronze.
49—25 BCE.
Inv. No. 5618.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
3. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Male bust (Dionysos? Plato? Dionysos-Plato? Priapus?).
Bronze.
49—25 BCE.
Inv. No. 5618.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
4. MOSAIC. Rome.
Plato’s Academy.
Mosaic from Pompeii (Villa of T. Siminius Stephanus).
Second style. Early 1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 124545.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LIX.
5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Herm of of a bearded divinity (Dionysus-Plato?) .
Phrigian marble (pavonazzetto).
2nd half of the 2nd cent. CE .
Inv. No. 345.
Ravenna, National Museum.
6. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Plato.
Luni marble. Roman copy after a Greek original created by Silanion ca. 370 BCE.
Inv. No. S 1377.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, II. 67.
7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Plato.
Luni marble. Roman copy after a Greek original created by Silanion ca. 370 BCE.
Inv. No. S 1377.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, II. 67.
8. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Herm of Plato.
Marble. From the original of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. S 571.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Philosophers.
9. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Herm of Plato.
Marble. From the original of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. S 571.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Philosophers.
10. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Plato. (The inscription “ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ” is a mistake).
Marble.
Inv. No. 2843.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Gallery of Maps, 63.
11. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Herm of Plato.
Marble.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 11.
12. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Herm of Plato.
Roman copy from a Greek statue of the last quarter of the 4th century BCE.
The inscription “ΖΗΝΩΝ” is a mistaken and modern addition.
Inv. No. 305.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 11.
13. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Herm of Plato.
Roman copy from a Greek statue of the last quarter of the 4th century BCE.
The inscription “ΖΗΝΩΝ” is a mistaken and modern addition.
Inv. No. 305.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 11.
14. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Herm of Plato.
Roman copy from a Greek statue of the last quarter of the 4th century BCE.
The inscription “ΖΗΝΩΝ” is a mistake and modern addition.
Inv. No. 305.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 11.