Trapezoforo

This table support was transferred to Naples from the Villa Madama and was the subject of numerous restoration by Carlo Albacini. The sculptural decoration is developed completely in the round of the frontal part of the screen, bounded at top and bottom by moulded cornices, while on the sides it is carved in high relief. On it is depicted the Homeric myth of Scylla gripping Ulysses' sailors. The sea-monster that emerges from the woman's body, her arm thrown haphazardly over her head, encircles in the loops of her fish-like tail the lifeless body of a man. Meanwhile the three dogs' heads that emerge from her stomach wreak destruction on other shipwercked sailors who struggle in the waves. A centaur is depicted on the opposite side, her nebride moving in the wind, a reed in her left hand and a small cupid seated on her back. Above her is an eagle holding a snake in its talons. This table support, whose decoration can be compared with the famous Scylla group found in the Grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga, can be dated around the middle of the 2nd century AD.这件桌台支架从玛达玛别墅（Villa Madama）被迁至那不勒斯，曾历经卡洛·阿尔巴奇尼（Carlo Albacini）主持的多次修复工作。其正面挡板部分的雕塑装饰完全采用圆雕工艺，上下以模制檐口收边，两侧则采用高浮雕技法雕刻。其上描绘了荷马史诗中斯库拉（Scylla）攫取尤利西斯（Ulysses）船员的神话场景：从女性躯体中浮现的海怪将手臂随意搭在头顶，以鱼形尾巴的环带缠绕住一名男子的尸体；与此同时，从其腹部伸出的三颗狗头正对在海浪中挣扎的其他海难遇难水手大肆施暴。其背面雕刻有半人马形象：她的兽皮披风随风扬起，左手握持芦苇，背上则安坐一尊小爱神雕像，其上方还雕刻有一只以利爪抓握毒蛇的雄鹰。这件桌台支架的装饰可与斯佩隆加（Sperlonga）提比略石窟（Grotto of Tiberius）中出土的著名斯库拉群雕相媲美，其年代可追溯至公元2世纪中叶。