Date added
Oct. 29, 2019, 1:33 a.m.
Description
A 2000 year old caryatid from the Forum of Augustus on exhibition at the wonderfully restored Trajan's Market complex. A Roman "shopping mall". (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid" rel="noreferrer nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan's_Market" rel="noreferrer nofollow">here</a>.
<i>This fine work gives substance to the emperor Augustus' statement "I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble" (Augustus, Res Gestae)</i>