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| Roman Empire Head of Dionysus AD 117-138 marble Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden |
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| Roman Empire Head of Meleager 1st century AD marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice |
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| Roman Empire Jupiter (heavily restored in the 17th century for Queen Christina of Sweden) AD 150 marble Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Roman Empire Athena (ancient body with modern plaster head cast from another statue) early 1st century AD marble Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Roman Empire Theft of the Palladium Group (fragment with head of Odysseus) 10 BC - AD 10 marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Sperlonga |
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| Roman Empire Theft of the Palladium Group (fragment with torso of Odysseus) 10 BC - AD 10 marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Sperlonga |
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| Roman Empire Theft of the Palladium Group (fragment with hand grasping cult statue of Athena) 10 BC - AD 10 marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Sperlonga |
"Miraculous guardian statues were common in ancient times, but none was more famous than the Trojan Palladium, a small wooden image of armed Athena. It fell from the sky, and the safety of Troy depended on its possession. Odysseus and Diomedes carried it away, thus enabling the sack of Troy [by their fellow Greeks]. But in the canonical Roman tradition, it was Aeneas who rescued the Palladium and brought it to Lavinium, whence it ultimately reached Rome. Ovid adduces both legends, but others tried to reconcile them: the image robbed by the Greeks was only a copy, or: Diomedes came to Italy and returned the Palladium to Aeneas. . . . In Rome it was kept as a pledge of Rome's fate (fatale pignus) in the innermost part of Vesta's temple, where only the chief vestal could enter; when in 241 BC the temple burnt, the pontifex maximus L. Caecilius Metellus saved the Palladium, but (so some authorities) lost his sight. It was still there in AD 191."
– from an entry by Jerzy Linderski in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd edition, 1996)
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| Roman Empire Theft of the Palladium Group (fragment with head of Diomedes) 10 BC - AD 10 marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Sperlonga |
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| Roman Empire Hercules 2nd century AD basanite Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Roman Empire Hercules (heavily restored in the 17th century for Queen Christina of Sweden) AD 200 marble Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Roman Empire Marine Venus 1st century AD marble Antikensammlung, Berlin |
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| Roman Empire Aphrodite 1st century AD marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence |
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| Roman Empire Herm of Hermes Propylaios AD 100-150 marble Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna |
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| Roman Empire Eros stringing his Bow 1st-2nd century AD marble Biblioteca Marciana, Venice |
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| Roman Empire Eros stringing his Bow (fragment of torso) 2nd century AD marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice |