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ECL-Bm.11:100-2013

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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

Inscription

Ciferri Villa Mattei No.63
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

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Altmann (no.83 fig. 85)
image 147480
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