A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN

CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
With an inscribed panel framed below by a berried garland, held on each side by erotes, holding trailing fillet in their other hand, each standing on an eagle, above the garland a bird catching the tail of a lizard, the central panel inscribed in Latin, reading: 'To the Spirits of the Departed, Gaius Carvilius Castor and Carvilia Eusebia. Gaius Carvilius Castor and daughter Carvilia Castorina have made (this urn)'
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) wide

Provenance

Private collection, France, 19th Century.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
C. L. Visconti. 'Scavi di Vigna Randanini', Mitteilungen des deutschen archäologischen Instituts. Römische Abteilung, 1861, p. 16-22.
W. Henzen and G. B. De Rossi et al., Corpus inscriptionum latinarum (CIL), VI, 1, Berlin, 1882, p. 1065-1066, no. 7598.

This urn comes from a columbarium, a family burial chamber, found in 1861 in a vineyard along the Via Appia. It belonged to the familia Carvilia.

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