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FRAGMENT OF THE VOLUTE OF AN IONIC OR COMPOSITE CAPITAL
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FRAGMENT OF THE VOLUTE OF AN IONIC OR COMPOSITE CAPITAL
Severan (193-235 AD) or slightly later (as Vermeule 42)
Pentelic marble
Height: 16cm
Width: 29cm
Thickness: 6cm
Width: 29cm
Thickness: 6cm
Museum number: S23
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 43
On display: Study
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Curatorial note
The centre and small sections of the curled acanthus leaves and stems either side of a composite capital.
Probably 3rd century work such as found in the Baths of Caracalla composite capitals: see the previous item Vermeule 42 (M56).
Probably 3rd century work such as found in the Baths of Caracalla composite capitals: see the previous item Vermeule 42 (M56).
Provenance
Probably Rome and perhaps 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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 3, no. 95.
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