Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

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English: The Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, situated near the Thermae of Diocletian, is a part of the National Museum of Rome. It is dedicated to Greek and Roman sculpture, frescoes mosaics and Epigraphy.

[edit] Portraits

[edit] Republican era

3rd-2nd centuries BC	Priest of Isis, middle 1st century BC	middle of the 1st century BC.	Late 1st century BC
Period of the Second Triumvirate (43 BC)	So-called “Brutus”, 30-15 BC	Young woman	Portrait of an old woman with the “nodus” (knot) hairstyle favoured by Octavia, sister of Emperor Augustus. Late 1st century BC.

[edit] Early Imperial era

Portrait of a boy	Portrait of a boy	Augustus as pontifex maximus	Augustus as pontifex maximus
Germanicus	Head of Apollo. Marble, Roman copy	Agrippina minor	Antonia minor
Claudia Octavia	Philip V of Macedon	Poppaea Sabina

[edit] Late Imperial era

Portrait of Emperor Nerva	Portrait of Vibia Sabina, wife of Emperor Hadrian	Portrait of Emperor Hadrian	Portrait of Antinous with crown
Portrait of Antinous with crown	Portrait of Antinous with crown	Portrait of Antinous	Portrait of Antinous
Potrait of Hypnos	Potrait of Hypnos	Head of Herakles	Portrait of Emperor Alexander Severus
Portrait of Emperor Gordian III

[edit] Roman copies after Greek originals

Portrait of Epicurus	Portrait of Herodotus	Double herma of Homer (Apollonius of Tyana type) and Menander	Portrait of Sappho (modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original, possibly an ancient bust reworked.)
Portrait of Socrates

[edit] Statues and reliefs

[edit] Greek originals and Roman copies

“Athena Carpegna”: cult statue of Athena with the face of the type of Carpegna Athena.	Intaglio with the head of Athena Parthenos. Bloodstone, Greek artwork, 1st century CE (modern mount).	Detail of a statue of Dionysus of the Sardanapalos type	“Hermes psychopompus”: statue of the Ludovisi Hermes type.
Wounded Niobid. Parian marble, Greek artwork, ca. 440 BC	Statue of a prince or dynast without crown, traditionnally thought to be a Seleucid prince, maybe Attalus II of Pergamon.	Statue of a Seleucid prince	Statue of a Seleucid prince
“Thermae boxer”: athlete resting after a boxing match	“Thermae boxer”	“Venus pudica”, one of the types of the Cnidian Venus	Anzio Apollo
Apollo (Castelporziano)	Statue of Thetis with a triton.	Tiber Apollo	Tiber Apollo
Castelporziano Discobolus	Lancellotti Discobolus	Maenad dancing, detail from a base. Marble, modified copy of a Greek original of the late 5th century BC.

[edit] Roman originals

Antinous as Bacchus, harvesting grapes	Sarcophagus with battle scene between Romans and Germans. Marble, Roman artwork, 180–190 CE.	Sarcophagus with battle scene between Romans and Germans. Marble, Roman artwork, 180–190 CE.	Actor playing a slave and wearing a comic mask. Bronze statuette, early 3rd century CE.
Representation of the lupercal: Romulus and Remus fed by a she-wolf, surrounded by representations of the Tiber and the Palatine.	Funerary relief representing a curule chair. Marble, Roman artwork, 50 BC–50 CE.

[edit] Artwork

[edit] Roman artwork

Doll. Coloured ivory, Roman work, second half of the 2nd century CE

Bluish glass cup with gadroons decoration, Roman artwork, 1st century BC/CE.

Two-handled amphora-shaped balsamarium (perfume flask). Purple glass, 1st-2nd centuries CE.

Necklace. Gold and glass paste, Roman artwork, 6th–5th centuries BC.

[edit] Mosaics

Central panel of a floor mosaic with a cat and two ducks	Central panel of a floor mosaic with a cat and two ducks, detail	Floor mosaic with a duck	Dionysos fighting the Indians
Pavement mosaic with a bust of Dionysos. Roman artwork, 3rd century CE.	Hercules and Iolaus, Fountain mosaic from the Anzio Nymphaeum.	Nilotic landscape with ducks	Head of a satyr
Head of Pan	Mosaic emblema with charioteer	Mosaic emblema with charioteer