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Naples: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Blue Vase VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
This wine vessel found in a Pompeii
tomb was made with the so-called Practical Information
glass-cameo technique: a layer of Piazza Museo Nazionale 19.
opaque white paste was placed Tel 081 44 22 149. Open 9am–
over coloured glass and then 7:30pm Wed–Mon. Closed 1 Jan,
engraved with decorative motifs. 25 May, 25 Dec. & 8
∑ cir.campania.beniculturali.it/
museoarcheologiconazionale

Transport
q Piazza Cavour-Museo. @ C64,
C83, E1, R1, R4, 24, 47, 110, 135.

Temple
of Isis

Sacrifice of Iphigenia
In this Pompeiian fresco,
Iphigenia, daughter of
Agamemnon, is about
to be sacrificed to Artemis,
who saves her by taking
a deer instead.

. Farnese Hercules
Made by Glykon of Athens, this
statue is an enlarged copy of a
sculpture by the Greek master
Lysippus. Napoleon is said
to have regretted leaving
it behind when he
removed his booty
from Italy in 1797.

Entrance

Stairs down to Egyptian
Collection
. Farnese Bull
Excavated in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome
(see p441), this is the largest sculptural group
(c.150 BC) to have survived from antiquity.
The best-known piece in the Farnese
Collection, it shows the punishment of
Dirce who, having ill-treated Antiope, was
tied to an enraged bull by the latter’s sons.

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