The Satyr and the Goat
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Frist sculpture
The Satyr And The Goat is a sculpture of Pan copulating with a goat from the Herculaneum, carved from Greek marble in the 1st century B.C. It was one of the first objects excavated when the Herculaneum was discovered in the long peristyle of the Villa of the Papyrus.
It was considered so offensive that it was not on public display until the year 2000 and remains in the Secret Museum, Naples. It is described in César Famin's The Royal Museum at Naples, Being Some Account of The Erotic Paintings, Bronzes, and Statues Contained in that Famous "Cabinet Secret.
Second sculpture
Pan teaching his eromenos Daphnis to play the panpipes. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE by Heliodoros. Collezione Farnese, Naples Archeological Museum (Inv. 6329). H. 1.58 m (5 ft. 2 in.).
Sculpture of Pan teaching his eromenos, the shepherd Daphnis, to play the panpipes; ca. 100 B.C. Found in Pompeii» «Copy of marble sculpture by Heliodorus. Ca. 100 BCE Object found at Pompeii, in the collection of the Naples Museum of Archeology
