The New Museum
The first three rooms of this museum contain fragments of statues, sarcophagi and urns etc. In the centre of ROOM IV is the elegant statue of Polymnia, a copy of an Hellenistic work from the second century B.C., in ROOM V it is worth noting the votive relief showing Asclepius, a Greek original of the fourty century B.C., a headless statue of Aphrodite in the style of Praxiteles and the Pallas Athena from the Castro Pretorio, a copy of the one by Cefisodorus.
In ROOMS VI and VII there are other reliefs, altars and portraits, including one of Domitian. ROOM VIII was used as a Lutheran Chapel by the German Embassy, built on top of a cell of the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter, the remains of which can be clearly distinguished. Among other things displayed here there are: a statue of a goddess (Persephone) from an original from the Pelepponese; a discus thrower (discobolus) from an original by Naucide, son of Polycleitus (fourth century B.C.); a colossal statue of Athena, a copy of the original by Cresilas.
Going up to the third floor we find another relief from the so-called “Arch of Portugal” with the triumph of the Empress Sabina and two rare examples of «opus sectile marmoreum» figuring a struggle between tigers and bulls from the basilica of Junius Bassus.
Tags: Aphrodite, Asclepius, basilica of Junius Bassus, Capitoline Temple of Jupiter, Museo Nuovo, Polymnia, Praxiteles, The New Museum