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ECL-Bm.12:95-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.12:95-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Altar to Lares

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

BM 12 nos.94,95,96 are catalogued together as drawings of the same altar

Other number

Fa 3 no. 108

Description

Content (description)

94: front. The rectangular altar has bands of moulding above and below. On a projecting line stand three figures, all draped and with their heads covered, the outer figures turning to the centre. The figure on left is male and holds a roll, in the centre is a male holding a staff with a bird by his feet, and on right a female holds out a patera and a bowl full of small granules. Across the top of the relief is the inscription AUGUSTO M PLAUTIO SILVAN COS. A second inscription is in a tabula ansata beneath the projecting line: VS OLIASO D LUCILIUS D L SALVIUS L BRINNIUS L PRINCEPS L FURIUS L SALVIUS/ MAG VICI SANDALIARI
95: side. Two Lares wearing tunics and laurel wreaths stand on a projecting line and turn to one another. The one on left holds up a wolf-headed rhyton and a patera, the other a ram-headed rhyton and carries a basket like vase. Across the top is the inscription LARIBUS AUGUSTIS
96: side. On a projecting line stands a trophy on left. A winged Victory alights on right, holding a large round shield.

Content (object)

altar
bust

Dimensions

height (actual size): 492mm
width (actual size): 369mm

Inscription

Ciferri Villa Medici No. 108 written in ink on the back of the drawing

Inscription description

Villa Medici N. 108 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left.

Materials & techniques note

red chalk on paper

Production

Person

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Mansuelli (I ; no. 205)
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