3-095-817 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Cast of monumental pilaster fragment with acanthus, scrolls, and birds, Villa Medici, late 18th century. The cast is of one of four pilaster fragments now set in a wall in the Loggia di Cleopatra of the Villa Medici in Rome. The original monument which featured these four pilasters almost certainly dates to the first half of the first century AD/CE. Their sheer size indicates that they either came from a temple or an honorific arch.