burial-chest
- Museum number
- 1858,0819.3
- Description
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Rectangular marble sepulchral chest dedicated to Claudia Amanda, wife of Actius Gamianus, decorated on the front with two rectangular tablets, one inscribedin Latin , each is bordered with lesbian cymation and divided by a sceptre with a acantus ornament below, two floral motifs also appear on the front.
- Production date
- 1stC (second half) (According to Sinn 1987)
- Dimensions
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Height: 24 centimetres
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Width: 11.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
- CIL VI 15350
- Smith, A. H. (1892) Catalogue of Greek Sculpture, vol. III. (London: British Museum), p.345, n. 2356
- Weaver, P.R.C. (1964) ‘Vicarius and Vicarianus in the Familia Caesaris’, Journal of Roman Studies 54, p. 127, nn. 79
- Sinn, F. (1987) Stadtrömische Marmorurnen. (Mainz am Rhein: Philip von Zabern), p. 155, n. 256.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1858,0819.3
