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Lanuvium torso - front view
Leeds Museums & Galleries
United Kingdom
Sculpted marble torso of a cavalryman wearing a plain lorica (body armour or cuirass), and a paludamentum (military cloak). He is also wearing a narrow sword-belt and a broad sash with tasselled ends tied in front in a knot. The right arm is broken off at the shoulder, and the right shoulder piece of lorica is missing. A portion of the neck is preserved, with muscles strongly rendered. In the surface of the neck is a square dowel-hole for attaching the head.
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Details
- Title: Lanuvium torso - front view
- Date Created: 75-25 BC
- Physical Dimensions: object height: 625mm, object width (at shoulders): 590mm, object width (at base): 610mm, object depth: 485mm, object circumference (waist): 1240mm, object weight: 324kg
- Provenance: Excavations were carried out at Lanuvium 1884-1890, directed by Sir John Savile Lumley (later Lord Savile). Before his death he arranged that the objects he recovered should be divided between the British Museum and the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (later Leeds City Museum).
- Subject Keywords: Archaeology, Archaeology
- Type: Sculpture
- Medium: stone, marble
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