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Fragment of the lower part of a small cornice
Later Flavian period (69-96 AD)
Marble, probably Pentelic marble
Height: 12cm
Width: 17cm
Thickness: 11cm
Width: 17cm
Thickness: 11cm
Museum number: M537
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 91
On display: Colonnade - central aisle
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Curatorial note
The carved enrichment (from top to bottom) consists of a cyma recta with leaf enrichment, a fluted fascia with stops in each groove, a corona with overlapping leaf ornament, and a fillet at the bottom.
The style, in the work of the leaves, and the stopped fluting, is found in similarly arranged fragments in a niche off the Triclinium of the Domus Flavia and in fragments around the main peristyle court of Domitian's Palatine complex. Later Flavian and probably from the same location.
The style, in the work of the leaves, and the stopped fluting, is found in similarly arranged fragments in a niche off the Triclinium of the Domus Flavia and in fragments around the main peristyle court of Domitian's Palatine complex. Later Flavian and probably from the same location.
Provenance
Rome: collected in Rome by Charles Heathcote Tatham for the architect Henry Holland during the 1790s. See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, list 1, no. 21.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 4.
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