Marble Funerary Altar Of Cominia Tyche

The metropolitan museum of art new york city united states.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.

101 6 cm villa gardens and peristyles courtyards were this woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads. Bust of a boy about three years old. 101 6 cm stone sculpture this woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads. This woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads.

Learn more about this artwork. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche ca. To the spirits of the dead. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche ca.

On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 162. To the most saintly cominia tyche his most chaste and loving wife from lucius annius festus. This funerary altar from the metropolitan museum s collection of roman art is dedicated to the memory and hair of cominia tyche a roman woman who died sometime during the flavian period in the late first century ad standing at just over three feet the altar is rectangular in shape with both the top and bottom bracketed by moldings that lend an architectural finished quality to the monument. A good example of the various aspects of roman funerary art is the marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.

To the most saintly cominia tyche his most chaste and loving wife from lucius annius festus. Metropolitan museum of art. That of cominia tyche in the metropolitan museum new york. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.

90 100 roman marble h. In addition to a fine portrait of the deceased in which she is depicted with the elaborate hairstyle that was fashionable among the ladies of the imperial court in the late first century a d. Download this artwork provided by the metropolitan museum of art. Em96g0 from alamy s library of millions of high resolution stock photos illustrations and vectors.

Roman flavian or trajanic period. There is a latin inscription that records. Mid 2nd century ad. The chronological distribution of roman funerary altars centres on the late first and the early second centuries ad evolving from the monumental altar tombs of the late republican period b c.

Download this stock image. This funerary altar from the metropolitan museum s collection of roman art is dedicated to the memory and hair of cominia tyche a roman woman who died sometime during the flavian period in the late first century ad. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche. To the spirits of the dead.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche flavian or trajanic ca. Ewald funerary monuments in the oxford handbook of roman sculpture 2015 p. Marble pediment of a funerary altar ca.