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A Roman antefix
Post 1st century AD
Veined Greek marble
Height: 34cm
Width (base): 23cm, maximum
Thickness: 20cm
Width (base): 23cm, maximum
Thickness: 20cm
Museum number: M564
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 124
On display: Colonnade - central aisle
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
The front of this antefix is carved in the shape of a honeysuckle palmette rising from an acanthus calyx. Traces of a fillet remain below. A drill has been used to carve the acanthus details which suggests a date at least after the end of the first century AD.
Provenance
Unrecorded.
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