A ROMAN MARBLE FUNERARY RELIEF

AUGUSTAN, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.

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A ROMAN MARBLE FUNERARY RELIEF
Augustan, Circa Late 1st Century B.C.
Sculpted in high relief with busts of a young man, an old man and a woman, the old man in the center wearing a tunic and a toga, resting his left hand on the arm of the woman, presumably his wife, who wears a tunic and a palla which is pulled up over her head like a veil, her hand holding the edge of the fabric in the "arm-sling" pose, the young man to the left, perhaps their son, wearing a tunic and a toga, his hand also in the "arm-sling" pose, the three identified by the inscriptions below: L GALLONIVS L L ASCANTO; L GALLONIVS L L PHILODAMVS; and GALLONIA L L LAA( )
54 in. (137.2 cm) long

来源

Asian Collection, purchased between 1968-1972

拍品专文

According to Cormack (in Kleiner and Matheson, I Claudia, Women in Ancient Rome, p. 199) these group portraits, numbering two to six, were "favored by recently enfranchised slaves and their families."

Described in a letter by Dr. E. Berger, Director of the Antikenmuseum, Basel, 31st May 1966.