Roman Trireme - I
Rectangular slab, with a convex profile, decorated with a trireme. The ship is depicted with an “acrostolium” with a volute curled inwards and, at the stern, with a “rostrum” with three swords. The hull is protected by longitudinal beams.
The ship moves to the right pushed by the triple row of oars; two reliefs depicting the icon of a deity and the head of Medusa are carved at the bow; at the stern rises the “stylis” with the flag. In addition to the helmsman (“gubernator”), seven naked rowers and a figure at the bow appear as members of the crew.
This and the slab inv. no. 6600 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 95 cm; width 82 cm
Late 1st century BC
From Fusaro lake
Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei - Baia Castle – Inv.6601
Roman Trireme - I
Rectangular slab, with a convex profile, decorated with a trireme. The ship is depicted with an “acrostolium” with a volute curled inwards and, at the stern, with a “rostrum” with three swords. The hull is protected by longitudinal beams.
The ship moves to the right pushed by the triple row of oars; two reliefs depicting the icon of a deity and the head of Medusa are carved at the bow; at the stern rises the “stylis” with the flag. In addition to the helmsman (“gubernator”), seven naked rowers and a figure at the bow appear as members of the crew.
This and the slab inv. no. 6600 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 95 cm; width 82 cm
Late 1st century BC
From Fusaro lake
Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei - Baia Castle – Inv.6601