This lion’s paw shows damages due to its long permanence underwater and constituted a part of a table support. It is one of the many sculptural elements found in 1972 along the quay of Ripa Puteolana, in the area where a marble workshop was eventually…

This large statue in grey marble was found in Pozzuoli in the waters in front of the acropolis at Rione Terra. Heavily damaged by marine organisms, was initially identified as Victoria, though it represents the goddess Isis, protectress of sailors (Pelagia), in a pose already…

The statue – maybe a part of a sculptural decoration of a large fountain or a nymphaeum as demonstrated by the remains of a pipe under the left elbow – was a Roman copy of a IV century A.D. original and represented Heracles in a…

Dionysius, powerful god of wine, is represented in the Submerged Imperial Nymphaeum as a graceful young man, resting on a small pillar and covered with a cloak, while offering wine from a jug (now lost) to a panther adorned with a vine shoot on the…

The marble statue probably depicts the god Dionysius and was found in the waters of the port of Pozzuoli in 1964, though heavily damaged by a long exposure to the action of marine organisms. His gentle and graceful position, the gestures and the whole figure…

Cybele, the great mother, powerful goddess of nature, is recognizable in this little statue seated on a throne between two lions and found in the waters of the port of Puteoli, even though the artefact is heavily eroded and damaged by marine organisms. The iconographic…

Octavia Claudia – a princess of the Julio-Claudian dynasty who died at a very young age – found her place into eternity in one of the lateral niches of the Submerged Imperial Nymphaeum of Punta dell’Epitaffio. The statue – found at the bottom of the…

The statue – a replica from Baiae of a model already known in Arezzo, maybe attributable to Praxiteles – was discovered in the waters of the port of Baia at the beginning of the 1920s among the submerged remains of the imperial palace. It represents…

The statue – a replica made in Puteoli in the Imperial Age, found in the waters of the port of Pozzuoli in 1972 – represented a woman with a veiled head in the act of covering her womb and chest with her arms; it was…

A Pentelic marble, Roman copy of a Greek original made of bronze, the statue of the type known as Hera Borghese was found in 1980 in the waters of the military port of Misenum. Due to the variations on the theme and considering the incompleteness…

A pentelic marble Roman copy of a Greek original made of bronze, the statue of the type known as Hera Borghese was found in 1923-1924 among the remains of the sunken palaces in Baia. The original sculpture, dated to the last quarter of the V…

A long frieze in white marble with bluish veins, featuring a series of facing griffins, was found in numerous fragments in 1924 among the remains of the sunken imperial palace in the waters of the port of Baia. The architectonic decorations adorned the upper part…