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FRAGMENT OF A CARVED TRIANGULAR PILLAR
117-138 AD
Probably Hadrianic
Probably Hadrianic
Marble, probably Italian marble
Height: 28cm
Width: 16cm
Width: 16cm
Museum number: S74
On display: Study
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
A fragment of a shaft identical with the previous (no.136; S142), as can be seen especially from the strip of moulding remaining along the left side.
Rome; collected in Rome 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 See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.69 or 70.
Literature
Tatham, see prev.
Associated items
S142, another similar
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