Memorie dall’Esquilino. Due statue ricomposte dagli Horti Lamiani

Abstract

The Horti Lamiani’s ancient area was strongly influenced by the urban transformations following Rome appointment as capital of
Italy’s Kingdom. In Piazza Dante, at the corner with via Ariosto, the excavations begun in 1874 discovered a small bath building
datable to the early fourth century AD. These excavations returned a large number of sculptures reduced to fragments that has been
reused in the foundation walls. In 1878 in the same area the excavation returned other valuable sculptures, and among them two heads
with golden faces attributable to two headless statues found during the first phase of the excavations: the reunification restored the lost
identity to a statue of Hephaistos and a statue of Hermes.