Figure 458

The front view of the two heads reveals a neat square hole between them (overlay), the result of the impact of a pile driver used in 1839 during the building of the Rhone riverbanks. Great Dolphins of Vienne, Roman period, Vienne, France, 2nd century CE, max L. 260 cm (Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Vienne, France, inv. R.1998.2.43).