Tauroctony from Capri

White marble relief (H. 0.77 Br. 0.99 D. 0.06). Naples, Museo Nazionale (Inv. No. 6733). According to the publication of Romanelli, a certain Giraldi is said (p. 91) to have found it at a farmer. The opinion, that the relief would have been found on Capri in the cave of Matromania (1), is based on an assertion of Rezzonico (p. 60), who saw it in 1794 in St. Constanzo’s Chapel. In 1816 it was in the Museo Borbonico already, but the additional sketch of the publisher is No. 408.

Isola di Capri, manoscritti del Conte della Torre Rezzonico .... pubblicati dall’ Abate Domenico Romanelli, Napoli 1816, 60;…