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