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Of rectangular form, carved in front with two birds in flight, holding a garland of leaves and fruits in their beak and flanking a ‘tabula ansata’ engraved with two lines of Latin inscriptions reading ‘C. Aterius Clonis'. The pedimented and volute lid decorated in front with scrolling rosettes. Said to be from Puteoli.

h. 27.3 x w. 34.3 x d. 31.1 cm

Roman Imperial, c. 1st century AD

Marble

Provenance

Said to have been found at Pozzuoli (modern Puteoli)
Father Giuseppe de Criscio (1826-1911), parish priest of Pozzuoli and antiquarian, acquired prior to 1878
Belgian private collection, 1970
Sotheby's, Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities - Sale N08810, New York, 8th December 2011, lot 31

Publications

T. Mommsen, "Chapter XLII: Puteoli", Inscriptiones, Bruttiorum, Lucaniae, Campaiae, Siciliaem sardiniae latinae, 1883, no. 8186
H.-G. Pflaum, Les carrières procuratoriennes sous le Haut Empire romain, Paris, 1961-01-01, p. 185
Sotheby's, Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities - Sale N08810, New York, 8th December 2011, lot 31

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2012

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Marble Cinerary Urn Inscribed 'for Gaius Aterius Cilo'

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