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Fragmentary section of a Roman spiral decorative shaft (on the right in the online image)
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Fragmentary section of a Roman spiral decorative shaft (on the right in the online image)
Luna marble
Height: 10cm
Museum number: S99
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 219A
On display: Study
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Curatorial note
This fragment is the second (see Soane S72/Vermeule 219) of two short sections of fluted, spiralled acanthus foliage shafts similar to other examples in Soane's collections (M54, M65, M645, M672, S77 and S81), all of which still retain (or are) the "double thyrsos" carved ornaments which topped such columns in antiquity.
It is tempting to add at least some of these twisted shafts to the collection of fragments from the Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) at Tivoli where there is a similar shaft-section in the Antiquario (no. 446) on the site.
This small fragment is very similar to Soane S72 (Vermeule 219) but so fragmentary that Vermeule included it within the catalogue entry for that object, hence its having been assigned the number V219A.
In the accompanying image S99 is on the right, photographed upside down.
It is tempting to add at least some of these twisted shafts to the collection of fragments from the Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa) at Tivoli where there is a similar shaft-section in the Antiquario (no. 446) on the site.
This small fragment is very similar to Soane S72 (Vermeule 219) but so fragmentary that Vermeule included it within the catalogue entry for that object, hence its having been assigned the number V219A.
In the accompanying image S99 is on the right, photographed upside down.
Provenance
Unrecorded but probably Rome and possibly collected by Charles Heathcote Tatham for the architect Henry Holland during the 1790s.
Literature
Tatham?: perhaps part of the object shown in Tatham Drawings 5, no. 2.
Associated items
S72, other part (suggested)
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