ID 1076494
Lot 21 | A ROMAN MARBLE FUNERARY ALTAR FOR JULIA SPERATA
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
25 ½ in. (65 cm.) high
Provenance
From the necropolis outside Porta Salaria in Rome, found by 1894 in a vineyard adjacent to the grounds of Villa Albani.
Private collection, France, acquired 1950s-1970s.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 December 2009, lot 47.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
E. Le Blant, 'Une inscription de la villa Albani', Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 38 année, no. 6, 1894, p. 417.
C. Hvelsen (ed.), Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. IV, pt. 4, Berlin, 1902, p. 3394, no. 32883.
A. Stein, 'Bericht über römische Epigraphik (Italien). 1893-1906', Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. 144, 1909, p. 198.
L. Wierschowski, Heer und Wirtschaft: das römische Heer der Prinzipatszeit als Wirtschaftsfaktor, Bonn, 1984, p. 71.
J. Pollini, 'Roman Marble Sculpture', in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 107, fig. 73.
Exhibited
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011 - 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA465).
| Medium: | Marble, Stone |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe, Roman Empire |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Marble, Stone |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe, Roman Empire |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
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