A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN

CIRCA MID 2ND CENTURY A.D.

細節
A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
CIRCA MID 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Cylindrical in form, of strigillated type, the front with a rectangular tabula framed by two nude boys shouldering a large garland, the tabula inscribed in Latin, reading: "For the underworld divinities: For Gaius Munatius Dionysius. Eutychas and Lysimachus, Freedmen, [erected this] for a very deserving Patron," the lid a modern replacement
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high (2)
來源
Japanese Private Collection, 1980s.

拍品專文

For related urns see an example in the Museo Nazionale Romano and one in the Vatican Museums, nos. 605 and 626 in Sinn, Stadtrömische Marmorurnen.