Roman Trireme - II
The trireme is depicted with an “acrostolium” with a volute curled inwards and, at the stern, with a “rostrum” with three swords.
The hull is decorated with a cornucopia at the bow and a vegetal raceme motif at the stern. The ship moves towards the left, pushed by the oars that appear to be inserted under the protective case (“parexeiresìa”). On board, five naked rowers are engaged in the navigation maneuvers, together with the helmsman and the rower.
This and the slab inv. no. 6601 belong to a funerary monument with a circular drum. The two slabs, probably, recall the feats accomplished by the military fleet stationed at Miseno in the last decades of the 1st century BC.
Marble bass-relief
Height 84,5 cm; width 79 cm
Late 1st century BC
From Fusaro lake
Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei - Baia Castle – Inv.6600
Roman Trireme - II
The trireme is depicted with an “acrostolium” with a volute curled inwards and, at the stern, with a “rostrum” with three swords.
The hull is decorated with a cornucopia at the bow and a vegetal raceme motif at the stern. The ship moves towards the left, pushed by the oars that appear to be inserted under the protective case (“parexeiresìa”). On board, five naked rowers are engaged in the navigation maneuvers, together with the helmsman and the rower.
This and the slab inv. no. 6601 belong to a funerary monument with a circular drum. The two slabs, probably, recall the feats accomplished by the military fleet stationed at Miseno in the last decades of the 1st century BC.
Marble bass-relief
Height 84,5 cm; width 79 cm
Late 1st century BC
From Fusaro lake
Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei - Baia Castle – Inv.6600