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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 2005,0927.9
Description: No. 227: Grave altar or funerary cippus: (above) the deceased in his library; (above the inscription) the deceased led on horseback. Brown ink on white. No. 228: Cinerary urn: (in pediment) father and son at funerary banquet. (Left side) Eros and Psyche. (Right side) Venus Genetrix and Cupid. Brown ink on white.
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 157 millimetres (no. 227); Height: 180 millimetres (no. 228); Width: 181 millimetres (no. 227); Width: 213 millimetres (no. 228)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: No. 227: The original is in Rome, Villa Carpegna (in 1882). [this information from: C. C. Vermeule, The Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum (type-written manuscript in G&R)] Cf. W. Stenhouse, Ancient Inscriptions [= F. Haskell, A. MacGregor, J. Montagu (eds.), The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné. Series A Part VII - Antiquities and Architecture (London 2002)], p. 123 no. 63. No. 228: Cf. Stenhouse, pp. 124-125 no. 64.
Bibliographic references: CIL VI / Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (9752) (no. 227); Stenhouse 2002 / Ancient Inscriptions (p. 123 no. 63) (no. 227)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: cinerary urn/sepulchral urn; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Psyche (no. 228); Representation of: Aphrodite/Venus (no. 228); Representation of: Eros/Cupid (no. 228)
Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir Charles Hercules Read
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks; Previous owner/ex-collection: Charles Townley; Previous owner/ex-collection: Richard Dalton; Previous owner/ex-collection: James Adam; Previous owner/ex-collection: Cardinal Alessandro Albani; Previous owner/ex-collection: Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo; Previous owner/ex-collection: Cassiano dal Pozzo
Acquisition date: 1903
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 2005,0927.9
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: Vol.II, fol. 9, nos. 227-228 (Franks)

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