Pasquino Group

Pasquino Group

Name: Pasquino Group
Material: cast (plaster of Paris)
Format: Statue Group
Museum: Courtesy Museo dell'Arte Classica, Sapienza University, Rome
Museum inventory number: 848
Museum of original: n/a (erected in the Piazza del Pasquino, Rome). The statue is a fragment of a Roman copy of the group probably depicting Menelaos retrieving from the battlefield the corpse of Patroklos.
More information on the website of Arachne, the central object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Photographer / modeler: Davide Angheleddu
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Note: The "Pasquino" is a freestanding statue in Rome; it was, however, originally part of a statue group depicting Menelaos and Patroklos.