Lot Essay
The front panel is inscribed with a funerary dedication reading, "To the Shades of the Dead (and) of Domitius Successus."
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN AND LID
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN AND LID
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
13 in. (33 cm.) wide
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
13 in. (33 cm.) wide
Provenance
Said to be from Cumae.
with Vincenzo Barone, Naples, by 1873.
Private Collection, Switzerland; thence by descent.
Le Bois Muralt: The Collection of a European Noble Family, Christie's, London, 18-19 January 2000, lot 921.
with Vincenzo Barone, Naples, by 1873.
Private Collection, Switzerland; thence by descent.
Le Bois Muralt: The Collection of a European Noble Family, Christie's, London, 18-19 January 2000, lot 921.
Literature
T. Mommsen, ed., Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. X; Inscriptiones Bruttiorum, Lucaniae, Campaniae, Siciliae, Sardiniae, part 1, Berlin, 1883, p. 261, no. 2370.
Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Database no. 171582.
Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Database no. 171582.
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