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Small star-rosettes as filling ornaments.

h. 44.5 x w. 30 (base) x w. 36 (top) cm

Second half of the 2nd century AD

Marble

Provenance

From the necropolis outside the Porta Salaria in Rome, found in 1894 or shortly before in a vineyard adjacent to the grounds of the Villa Albani
Ex French private collection, acquired in the 1950s-1970s
Acquired at Sotheby’s, London, 10th December 2009, lot 47

Publications

Edmond Le Blant, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 1894, 4ème série, tome XXII, p. 417
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 1902, vol. VI, part. 4, no. 32883
Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1909, vol. 142-144, p. 198
lothar Wierschowski, Heer und Wirtschaft: das römische Heer der Prinzipatszeit als Wirtschaftsfaktor, Bonn, 1984, p. 71
Sotheby's, Antiquities Sale, New York, 10th December 2009, lot 47
J. Pollini, "Roman Marble Sculpture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 107, fig. 73

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Marble Funerary Altar of Julia Sperata

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