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A Marble Cinerary Urn, Roman Imperial, reign of Otho, Galba, or Vitellius, circa A.D. 69
Estimate
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Description
- A Marble Cinerary Urn
- Marble
- 17 by 13 by 11 7/16 in. 43.2 by 33 by 29 cm.
carved in front between scale-patterned pilasters with two standing erotes holding a tondo portrait bust of a woman with calyx of acanthus leaves below, the framed panel above carved with five lines of Latin inscription: [Ser(vio) Sul]picio Aug(usti) l(iberto) / Epaphrodito / Callistiano / Sulpicia Soteris / coniugi b(ene) m(erenti) (Sulpicia Soteris [dedicated this] to her well-deserving husband Servius Sulpicius Epaphroditus Callistianus, the Emperor's freedman), two crossed burning torches flanked by rosettes above, each side carved with a griffin seated on a tall pedestal.
Provenance
Rome art market, between 1969 and 1972
acquired by the previous owner in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s
acquired by the previous owner in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s
Literature
Epigraphica, vol. 40, 1978, p. 140, no. 24
L' année épigraphique, 1978, no. 52
Friederike Sinn, Stadtrömische Marmorurnen, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, p. 279 (under "Location Unknown")
Heikki Solin, Die Stadtrömischen Sklavennamen: Ein Namenbuch, Vol. 1, Wiesbaden, 1996, p. 282
Paul Weaver, "Repertorium Familiae Caesaris – Freedmen of Galba, Otho & Vitellius," no. 706 (http://histinst.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/fileadmin/home/Abteilungen/Alte_Geschichte/Mitarbeiter/Eck/Weaver/04_Sulpicii.pdf)
L' année épigraphique, 1978, no. 52
Friederike Sinn, Stadtrömische Marmorurnen, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, p. 279 (under "Location Unknown")
Heikki Solin, Die Stadtrömischen Sklavennamen: Ein Namenbuch, Vol. 1, Wiesbaden, 1996, p. 282
Paul Weaver, "Repertorium Familiae Caesaris – Freedmen of Galba, Otho & Vitellius," no. 706 (http://histinst.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/fileadmin/home/Abteilungen/Alte_Geschichte/Mitarbeiter/Eck/Weaver/04_Sulpicii.pdf)