ECL-Bm.11:100-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.11:100-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Funerary urn
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Was Fa 2 no. 63
Other number
Fa 3 Villa no.63
Description
Content (description)
A tall altar, crowned with a pediment and acroteria. In the centre of the pediment in a shell are the busts of man and wife with their arms round one another; the shell is flanked by two great sea-monsters, which move outwards, but turn their heads to look to centre. At each side of the front grows a tall palm tree with a tiny cluster of leaves. In front of each trunk stands a Victory, about half the height of the tree. Each pulls open one leaf of a double door between them, by means of a ring in a Lion's mouth, two of which decorate each door. Over the door is a panel with the inscription: DIS MANIBUS/ C CLODIUS C F/ PRIMITIUS VIXIT ANN/ XI DIEBUS XXV/ C CLODIUS SECUNDUS/ ET CLODIA PRIMA F. Over the top of the panel is a further inscription: C CLODIUS APOLLINARIS/ VA V M VI D VIII.
Content (object)
urn
Content (note)
Funerary Urn
Dimensions
height (actual size): 477mm
width (actual size): 373mm
width (actual size): 373mm
Inscription
Ciferri Villa Mattei No.63
written in ink on the back of the drawing
written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
Villa Mattei N. 63 written in pencil beneath the drawing lower left
Materials & techniques note
red chalk on paper
Production
Person
Ciferri, Bernardino (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Altmann (no.83 fig. 85)
