A Roman Marble Cinerary Urn, circa 2nd half of the 1st/early 2nd Century A.D.

of rectangular form, carved in front with two confronted couchant bird-headed marine monsters, each with their tail coiled around a rudder, on either side of a shell medallion wih fragmentary portrait bust, a panel above engraved with six lines of Latin inscription translating "For Cannutia Decima, daughter of C(aius), excellent woman, (well-)deserving, C(aius) Curvius Successus (had this) made. She lived [...] years [...] months [...]," one short side carved in shallow relief with a figure of Pegasus, the other with a vase with broad gadrooned body and high handles.

Monastery of the Conventual Fathers, Amalfi, from before 1718 until about 1860
house of the Raffi family, Ravello
Francis Nevile Reid (1826-1892), Villa Rufolo, Ravello
Charles Carmichael Lacaita (1853-1933), Villa Rufolo
Mrs. Tallon-Lacaita, Villa Rufolo, until 1939, then Paris
by descent to the present owner

Francesco Pansa, Istoria dell'antica repubblica d'Amalfi, Bologna, vol. II, 1724, p. 184
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. X: Inscriptiones Bruttiorum, Lucaniae, Campaniae, Siciliae, Sardiniae Latinae, ed. Th. Mommsen, 1883, p. 68, no. 570, and p. 1005, ad n. 570
Inscriptiones Italiae, vol. 1, Regio 1, fasc. 1, Vittorio Bracco, ed., Rome, 1931, no. 196

surface weathered overall and worn in places, central medallion in front was drilled through at a later period, inscription might have been partially refreshed
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For related examples see F. Sinn, Stadtrömische Marmorurnen, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, nos. 292 and 293, pl. 52a-b.