Marble Funerary Altar Of Cominia Tyche

Ewald funerary monuments in the oxford handbook of roman sculpture 2015 p.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche. This woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads. 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. 101 6 cm villa gardens and peristyles courtyards were this woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads.

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 pediment of a funerary altar ca. Download this artwork provided by the metropolitan museum of art. Bust of a boy about three years old.

Roman flavian or trajanic period. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche at the metropolitan museum of art. On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 162. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.

To the spirits of the dead. 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. To the spirits of the dead. 90 100 roman marble h.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche. The metropolitan museum of art new york city united states. 101 6 cm stone sculpture this woman s name is known from the inscription below the portrait which reads. Mid 2nd century ad.

Metropolitan museum of art. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche roman imperial flavian or trajanic ca. To the spirits of the dead. Download this stock image.

Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche ca. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche flavian or trajanic ca. Learn more about this artwork. 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.

To the most saintly cominia tyche his most chaste and loving wife from lucius annius festus. That of cominia tyche in the metropolitan museum new york. Marble funerary altar of cominia tyche ca. A good example of the various aspects of roman funerary art is the marble funerary altar of cominia tyche.