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Fragment of the enriched abacus of a Corinthian or Composite capital
193-235 AD
Severan
Severan
Luna marble
Height: 22cm
Width: 63cm
Width: 63cm
Museum number: M50
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 49
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
This fragment displays egg and dart ornament in high relief above a cavetto enriched with acanthus palmettes alternately erect and inverted. The regularity of the chiselled breaks and the seemingly deliberate destruction of the egg and dart enrichment would indicate that this and the following piece (Vermeule 49/M50) were probably prepared for reuse as building material.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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