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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PAUL M. LEAKE
A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN AND LID
CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN AND LID
CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Square in form, the front carved in high relief, centered by a rectangular panel engraved with a six-line Latin inscription, reading: "To the Shades of the Dead (and) of Marcus Titius Stephanus, a soothsayer, who lived 29 years, 6 days. Marcus Titius Stephanus his father (did this) for his sweetest and well-deserving son," flanked by ram heads at the corners, with undulating fillets descending behind, all above a large fruit-laden garland, birds below, masks in the lower corners, pipes, a basket with an emerging snake, a shield, and a lagabolon above the garland; the sides each with an X tied with a ribbon; the gabled lid with palmette acroteria, a bird beside an overturned fruit-filled basket in the pediment
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high including the lid
CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Square in form, the front carved in high relief, centered by a rectangular panel engraved with a six-line Latin inscription, reading: "To the Shades of the Dead (and) of Marcus Titius Stephanus, a soothsayer, who lived 29 years, 6 days. Marcus Titius Stephanus his father (did this) for his sweetest and well-deserving son," flanked by ram heads at the corners, with undulating fillets descending behind, all above a large fruit-laden garland, birds below, masks in the lower corners, pipes, a basket with an emerging snake, a shield, and a lagabolon above the garland; the sides each with an X tied with a ribbon; the gabled lid with palmette acroteria, a bird beside an overturned fruit-filled basket in the pediment
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high including the lid
來源
Joachim Ferroni, Naples.
Vente Apres Décès des collections de J. Ferroni, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, 14-22 April 1909, lot 578, pl. 58.
Paul M. Leake (1908-1983), Massachusetts and New York, acquired in the 1950s; thence by descent.
Vente Apres Décès des collections de J. Ferroni, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, 14-22 April 1909, lot 578, pl. 58.
Paul M. Leake (1908-1983), Massachusetts and New York, acquired in the 1950s; thence by descent.
出版
F. Sinn, Stadtrömische Marmorurnen, Mainz, 1987, p. 205, no. 473.