Lot 57
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A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARIUM LID
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A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARIUM LID

1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARIUM LID
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The pediment in front is decorated in relief with two confronting seated griffins flanking an incense burner on tripod feet, to either side it is flanked by acroteria carved with masks with twisted locks of hair, the rear two acroteria cut with acanthus leaf
25 in. (63.5 cm.) long
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED: Métamorphoses, pp. 205 and 395.

These two griffins might here represent those who, according to myth, carried Alexander to the heavens in a miraculous apotheosis.

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