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Marble Disc with Two Theatre Masks in Relief in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2007

Marble Disc with Two Theatre Masks in Relief in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2007
Marble disc with two theatre masks in relief
Roman, Early Imperial, 3rd quarter of the 1st century AD

Accession # 13.229.6

Marble discs known as oscilla decorated the peristyles of Roman villas. Most were carved on both sides with images related to the world of Dionysos and were designed to hang freely between the columns that surrounded interior gardens.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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