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A Roman antefix
14-70 AD
Julio-Claudian
Julio-Claudian
Coarse-grained Asiatic marble
Height: 22cm
Width: 18cm
Thickness: 12cm
Width: 18cm
Thickness: 12cm
Museum number: M628
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 127
Not on display
Curatorial note
Within an outer fillet edge-border enframement, a honeysuckle-palmette, the stylised bottom leaves of which curve up and run into the fillet.
This is a decorative pattern which disappears from architectural enrichment after the first part of the Flavian Era (c.80 AD), and is best associated with Julio-Claudian building.
This is a decorative pattern which disappears from architectural enrichment after the first part of the Flavian Era (c.80 AD), and is best associated with Julio-Claudian building.
Provenance
Rome; collected 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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 1, no. 14.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 4.
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