Fragmentary Funerary Altar
Only half of this altar survives; the rest was deliberately destroyed in antiquity. On the complete side is a bird in a tree, and on another side is half of a wreath; these are common funerary decorations in the 1st century CE. A third side is entirely missing. The fourth side...
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37711
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object
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normalized
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, by 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown] [marble no. 54?]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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0
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/23.179 |
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