Reconstruction of a figurative relief with different scenes of cupid-like figures affronted in the act of sacrificing bulls - FC 1017

FC 1017
Type: 
Sculpture
Year: 
From the Trajan Era: 113 AD
Material and technique: 
Luna marble
Origin: 
Foro di Cesare
Inventory: 
FC 1017

Masterpieces of the hall

The hall

Decorazione esterna del Tempio di Venere Genitrice

Two adjoining rooms are home to pieces of the exterior decoration of the temple. These panels, each depict a variation of the same scene: cherub-like figures holding up garlands and sacrificing bulls (tauroctony). 
The Temple of Venus Genetrix was embellished by extremely delicate decorative elements such as the reconstructed lesene displayed in the room, decorated with vine tendrils, and a piece from the corbelled cornice of the external trabeation, in which the original decorations along the sima are still intact.