A ROMAN MARBLE FUNERARY RELIEF

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