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Greek provincial funerary relief
Roman Imperial
Coarse-grained Greek marble
Height: 36.5cm
Width: 27cm
Thickness: 7cm
Width: 27cm
Thickness: 7cm
Museum number: M1126
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 300
On display: Colonnade - north wall
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
In the niche-shaped, recessed field somewhat arched at the top, a female figure to right in long chiton (?), sits on a folding seat, her feet placed on a high footstool, her right hand raised and left extended to a child who stands before her on a high pedestal. The child wears an ungirdled chiton and is presenting an offering.
As Michaelis further noticed, the relief is in a rough, provincial style, scarcely more than sketched in outline', with detail difficult to recognise. Dr. Möbius suggests Thracian or middle Anatolian work of the Imperial period.
As Michaelis further noticed, the relief is in a rough, provincial style, scarcely more than sketched in outline', with detail difficult to recognise. Dr. Möbius suggests Thracian or middle Anatolian work of the Imperial period.
Provenance
Acquired by Soane from the collection of the neoclassical sculptor John Flaxman.
Literature
A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, trans. C.A.M. Fennell, Cambridge, 1882, p.477, no. 22.
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