Combe, Taylor [Hrsg.]: A description of the collection of ancient Marbles in the British Museum: with engravings (Band 10) (London, 1845)

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PLATE XLVI.

CUPIDS AND ARMOUR.

The bas relief engraved in this plate has been the front of a
sarcophagus. It represents eight Cupids carrying off various
pieces of armour. Two are occupied in placing a helmet upon a
square column or cippus, another carries a sword, another a spear,
two others are endeavouring to raise a cuirass, while two more
are engaged in displaying a shield, supported upon two cornu-
copias, or perhaps upon a stool, the two front legs of which are in
the form of cornucopia?. The shield is inscribed,
D • (iis) M(anibus)
SALLVSTIO • C(aii) F(ilio) IASIO
ALVMNO • SVO • B • (ene) M • (erenti)
QVI VIXIT • ANN • (os) V • DO
MITIVS AVG • (usti) N • (ostri) DISP • (ensator)

RATIONIS • MON____.

.....CVM • SALLVS

TIA • CAELIA N(onni) F • (ilia)
CONIVGE • SVA •
FECER • (unt).
To the infernal Gods, Domitius, steward of the (mint ? ) expendi-
ture of our Emperor, with his wife Sallustia Cselia the daughter

of N-have made this to their well deserving foster child Sal-

lustius Iasius, the son of Caius, who lived five years.

Underneath the shield are the letters B • M • which appear to
have been cut at a later period.