CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
7 1⁄2 in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

Reputedly found between 1886-1887 on the Via Trionfale, Rome.
American private collection, acquired in Paris in the 1990s.
Single owner sale of Italian, Spanish and Continental Renaissance and Baroque Antiques, CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 10 April 2022, lot 126.

Literature

Notizie degli scavi di antichità, Rome, 1887, p. 79, no. 21.
Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, 1887, p. 43, no. 1771.
C. Hülsen, Corpus inscriptionum latinarum, vol. VI, 1902, part 4, no. 36162.

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Lot Essay

Inscribed with a funerary dedication, "To the Shades of the Departed (and) for Marcus Pontius Longinus, son of Marcus, (who) lived 6 years, 6 months, 11 days, 2 hours". Decorated with two tripods in deep relief and two griffins below the inscription.

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