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Fragment of the enriched soffit of an architrave
27 BC-14 AD
Augustan
Augustan
Luna marble
Width: 38cm
Length: 25cm
Thickness: 4cm
Length: 25cm
Thickness: 4cm
Museum number: M39
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 86
On display: Museum Corridor - outside the Picture Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
From forward edge (or top as described in present display mounting), enrichment consists of a flattened, roughened face for overjoining leading to a groove and fillet, cyma reversa enriched with waterleaf, another groove, guilloche band, groove, and rough surface.
An excellent example of Augustan work as found in the Forum of Augustus of the Basilica Julia fragments; the details and arrangement of this enrichment was copied in the Forum Traiani but there the waterleaf is easily distinguished from this exclusively Augustan carving1.
1 See Leon, Trajansforum, pl. 71, 1, pp. 175, 263, 279 for an example of this kind of soffit from the Forum of Augustus and pl. 7, 2, p. 62 for one from the Forum Traiani.
An excellent example of Augustan work as found in the Forum of Augustus of the Basilica Julia fragments; the details and arrangement of this enrichment was copied in the Forum Traiani but there the waterleaf is easily distinguished from this exclusively Augustan carving1.
1 See Leon, Trajansforum, pl. 71, 1, pp. 175, 263, 279 for an example of this kind of soffit from the Forum of Augustus and pl. 7, 2, p. 62 for one from the Forum Traiani.
Provenance
Shown in drawing of 1813.I.
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