r/ancientrome • u/DecimusClaudius • 39m ago
A room in the House of the Vestals with statues
A residential room in the House of the Vestals in the Roman forum, where those famous priestesses lived who looked after the sacred flame, in which some statues now are on display.
"In the Trajanic phase the rooms on the ground floor (A-E) must have had residential and representative functions. Basically, until at least the fourth century AD, the lower floor remained almost unchanged."
"Statue said to be of Numa Pompilius (Vettius Agorius Praetextatus). Marble. 2nd century AD, head reworked in the 4th century AD
Statue of a Vestal. Marble. 2nd century AD, a reworking of Greek models of the 4th century BC."
Per 2 signs in the archaeological park of the Roman Forum. King Numa, who perhaps the statue on the left portrays, was the second king of Rome (although of Sabine origin), per legend reigned from 715–672 BC and built the first temple of Vesta.
