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lar to that belonging to the church of St. Lawrence, on the Tivoli
road near Rome, which is engraved in Bartoli, Admiranda Romana-
rum Antiquitatum Vestigia, tab. 58, and in Montfaucon, L'Anti-
quite Expliquee, torn. hi. pi. cxxx, but which is more correctly
represented in Lumisden's Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome,
pi. xi. p. 430. Upon the coin which was struck by Marcus Aure-
lius in commemoration of his marriage with the younger Faustina,
and which has the legend VOTA PUBLICA there is represented
a similar group of three figures.
Another sarcophagus, very similar in design but varying some-
what in the details, is in the Museum at Mantua,3 and is supposed
to represent the marriage of Lucius Verus with Lucilla, daughter
of Marcus Aurelius. In both these monuments the group re-
sembling that now under consideration is at the extremity of the
front opposite the right hand of the spectator, the larger part of
the whole composition being occupied by the priest and other
attendants preparing to celebrate a sacrifice.
This monument has been in some places restored. The upper
part of all the heads, the whole head and niche of the pronubus ;
the feet and the lower part of the draperies of all the figures are
modern. The style and character of the workmanship induce us
to ascribe it to the time of the Antonines, but whether the subject
is a general representation of a Roman marriage or the nuptials of
a member of the imperial family it would not be safe to pronounce.
Length 2 ft. 9^ in. Height 3 ft. 3 in.
3 Labus, Museo de Mantova, vol. iii, tab. 53.
lar to that belonging to the church of St. Lawrence, on the Tivoli
road near Rome, which is engraved in Bartoli, Admiranda Romana-
rum Antiquitatum Vestigia, tab. 58, and in Montfaucon, L'Anti-
quite Expliquee, torn. hi. pi. cxxx, but which is more correctly
represented in Lumisden's Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome,
pi. xi. p. 430. Upon the coin which was struck by Marcus Aure-
lius in commemoration of his marriage with the younger Faustina,
and which has the legend VOTA PUBLICA there is represented
a similar group of three figures.
Another sarcophagus, very similar in design but varying some-
what in the details, is in the Museum at Mantua,3 and is supposed
to represent the marriage of Lucius Verus with Lucilla, daughter
of Marcus Aurelius. In both these monuments the group re-
sembling that now under consideration is at the extremity of the
front opposite the right hand of the spectator, the larger part of
the whole composition being occupied by the priest and other
attendants preparing to celebrate a sacrifice.
This monument has been in some places restored. The upper
part of all the heads, the whole head and niche of the pronubus ;
the feet and the lower part of the draperies of all the figures are
modern. The style and character of the workmanship induce us
to ascribe it to the time of the Antonines, but whether the subject
is a general representation of a Roman marriage or the nuptials of
a member of the imperial family it would not be safe to pronounce.
Length 2 ft. 9^ in. Height 3 ft. 3 in.
3 Labus, Museo de Mantova, vol. iii, tab. 53.