Bust of a boy about three years old.
Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.
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To the most saintly cominia tyche his most chaste and loving wife from lucius annius festus.
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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.
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Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche flavian or trajanic ca.
Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche roman imperial flavian or trajanic ca.
There is a latin inscription that records.
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.
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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.
Ewald funerary monuments in the oxford handbook of roman sculpture 2015 p.
That of cominia tyche in the metropolitan museum new york.
To the spirits of the dead.
Mid 2nd century ad.
Roman flavian or trajanic period.
Metropolitan museum of art.
To the spirits of the dead.
To the spirits of the dead.
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.
90 100 roman marble h.
101 6 cm stone sculpture this woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads.
Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche ca.
Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche ca.
This woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads.
Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.
A good example of the various aspects of roman funerary art is the marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.
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.
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To the most saintly cominia tyche his most chaste and loving wife from lucius annius festus.
On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 162.
