The collection

The statue, equipped with a plinth, was found in the ground layer of the cold water pool(frigidarium) of the baths. It depicts a young woman, slightly smaller than life-size, whose head, right arm and left hand have been lost. Leaning on her left leg, she wears a peplos (Greek dress) stopped below the breast by a belt, a cloak and sandals. It has been hypothesised that the sculpture was completed by the figure of a snake held in the right hand, of which there are traces of the props along the side and on the belly, and thus depicted the Greek goddess Hygieia, protector of health. It is a copy of a Greek original from the 4th century BC, made at the time of Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD).

Bibliography: Bertino A., La villa romana e l’Antiquarium del Varignano, Sarzana 1990, pp. 21-23.

Fragment of a basin rim decorated in relief. On the face facing upwards, which has a convex profile, are lanceolate leaves, on the opposite, concave one, are hawthorn leaves.

Bibliography: Bertino A., Varignano, in AA.VV., Archeologia in Liguria. Scavi e scoperte 1967-75, Genoa 1976, pp. 76 and 78.

Fragmentary jug, recomposed, with trefoil mouth, narrow neck, globular body, handle set between the top of the neck and the shoulder.

Bibliography: Bertino A., Varignano, in AA.VV., Archeologia in Liguria. Scavi e scoperte 1967-75, Genoa 1976, pp. 72-73.

Fragment of a marble table(trapeza) extracted from the caves of Thuburbo Maius in proconsular Africa, i.e. present-day Tunisia.

Bibliography: Bertino A., Varignano, in P. Melli (ed.), Archeologia in Liguria II. Scavi e scoperte 1976-81, Genoa 1984, pp. 60-61.