Panel 8 Image 3

Panel 8

Identification

Images are etchings by Marco Carloni and Franciszek Smuglewicz, commissioned by Ludovico Mirra, in Vestigia delle termi di Tito e loro interne pitture (1776?), of Nero’s Golden House (Domus aurea), 64-68 CE (destroyed); page is from Carl Robert, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. III, 3 (Berlin, 1919), p.406.

Suggested readings and resources

Same image in the text of Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelsberg), Full text of Vestigia delle termi di Tito (see images 13, 14, 15)

Description

Above: Phaeton’s Plea; Middle and below: The horses of Helios (Phoebus) are brought to Phaeton by the Horae; destroyed etching L. Mirri