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A ROMAN MARBLE CINERARY URN INSCRIBED FOR CAESENNIA GRAPTE, JULIO-CLAUDIAN, 1ST HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D., WITH 18TH CENTURY LID | A Roman Marble Cinerary Urn inscribed for Caesennia Grapte
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15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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描述
- marble
- Height without lid 36.8 cm.
with splayed foot, deep ovoid body, and cylindrical handles carved in low relief with inverted palmettes, the body finely carved in shallow relief with scrolling branches of grapevine and ivy springing from beneath each handle, the rectangular panel in front engraved with three lines of Latin inscription reading D(iis) M(anibus) / Caesenniae / Graptes matris (“To the Spirits of the Departed of Caesennia Grapte, mother”); finial of restored lid missing.
來源
Baron Pierre Nicolas van Hoorn van Vlooswyck (1743-1809), Paris (his estate sale: Jean-Baptiste Pierre Lebrun, Catalogue des objets rares et précieux, du plus beau choix, etc., November 22nd-December 7th, 1809, no. 170)
New York art market
Sotheby's, New York, December 14th, 1994, no. 148, illus.
acquired at the above sale by James Francis Scott (1936-2017), Charlottesville, Virginia
New York art market
Sotheby's, New York, December 14th, 1994, no. 148, illus.
acquired at the above sale by James Francis Scott (1936-2017), Charlottesville, Virginia
出版
Aubin-Louis Millin, Monuments antiques inédits ou nouvellement expliqués, vol. 1, Paris, 1802, pp. 18ff., engraved on pl. 3
Tessier, “Sur des grottes sépulcrales étrusques récemment découvertes près de Corneto, l’ancienne Tarquinium,” Journal des Savans, February 1828, p. 89
Joachim Marquardt, Das Privatleben der Römer, part I, Leipzig, 1879, p. 370, note 9
Christian Hülsen, ed., Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. VI: Inscriptiones Urbis Romae latinae, part 4: Additamenta, Berlin, 1902, no. 34719
Tessier, “Sur des grottes sépulcrales étrusques récemment découvertes près de Corneto, l’ancienne Tarquinium,” Journal des Savans, February 1828, p. 89
Joachim Marquardt, Das Privatleben der Römer, part I, Leipzig, 1879, p. 370, note 9
Christian Hülsen, ed., Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. VI: Inscriptiones Urbis Romae latinae, part 4: Additamenta, Berlin, 1902, no. 34719