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Sections of an early Christian colonnette capital
First decades of the 4th century AD
Greek island marble
Height: 8cm
Width: 9cm
Length: 9cm
Width: 9cm
Length: 9cm
Museum number: A35
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 48
On display: Lobby to the Breakfast Room
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Curatorial note
This capital consists of two sections - a convex uncarved fillet abacus below which is an enrichment of four curled acanthus leaves springing from the corners and covering the body of the capital.
The style of the leaf carving is close to that of two examples of small capitals with similar lower acanthus in the Museo di Aquileia1 . The first is dated to the period of the Tetrarchs and the second to the first decades of the fourth century AD.
1 V. Scrinari, I Capitelli romani di Aquileia, Padua, 1952, nos. 37, 38.
The style of the leaf carving is close to that of two examples of small capitals with similar lower acanthus in the Museo di Aquileia1 . The first is dated to the period of the Tetrarchs and the second to the first decades of the fourth century AD.
1 V. Scrinari, I Capitelli romani di Aquileia, Padua, 1952, nos. 37, 38.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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