Marble Funerary Altar Of Cominia Tyche

To the most saintly cominia tyche his most chaste and loving wife from lucius annius festus.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.

Metropolitan museum of art. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche flavian or trajanic ca. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche ca.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche roman imperial flavian or trajanic ca. 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. On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 162.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche ca. The metropolitan museum of art new york city united states. 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. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche at the metropolitan museum of art.

Learn more about this artwork. 90 100 roman marble h. Download this artwork provided by the metropolitan museum of art. Roman flavian or trajanic period.

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. This woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads. To the spirits of the dead.

To the spirits of the dead. 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. 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. Marble pediment of a funerary altar ca.

There is a latin inscription that records. Em96g0 from alamy s library of millions of high resolution stock photos illustrations and vectors. Mid 2nd century ad. That of cominia tyche in the metropolitan museum new york.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche. Bust of a boy about three years old. Ewald funerary monuments in the oxford handbook of roman sculpture 2015 p. Download this stock image.