Trabeation with coping and frieze featuring plants

Trabeazione con coronamento e con fregio a decorazione vegetale
Type: 
Sculpture
Year: 
From the Trajan Era: 113 AD
Material and technique: 
Proconnesian marble
Origin: 
Foro di Cesare
Inventory: 
FC 125

Trabeation with coping and frieze featuring plants, corner section. From the second order of the internal decoration of the cella in the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Caesar's Forum.

The hall

Decorazione interna del Tempio di Venere Genitrice
Interior Decoration of the Temple of Venus Genetrix

The interior of the Temple of Venus Genetrix was also richly embellished and pieces of other panels with cherub-like figures are displayed. In one, they can be seen amidst upside-down Acanthus bushes getting ready for dinner, busy decorating candelabra, whilst other, somewhat smaller panels show single figures in different poses. Another panel in relief features a large bowl positioned above a theatrical mask and a panther with dappled fur – a clear reference to Dionysus.