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FASTI MODERNI II. 2,3
75
background is a wreathed lictor carrying long fasces. In the foreground
is a bullock to r. with the sacrificial band round his belly; he is followed
by a boar with a similar band. Behind the bullock is the nude upper
part of a or sacrificial attendant. He is followed by another
nude from the waist upwards with a garment covering his lower limbs.
On his 1. shoulder he carries a mallet with a long handle, and in his r.
hand a sacrificial knife. This group is on a smaller scale than that round
the altar. Above in the field is the inscription. On the r. side on a
projecting plinth is the figure of a wreathed Lar, wearing a short tunic,
knotted round the waist. In his r. hand he holds a large bough of laurel,
the tree sacred to Apollo, whose cult had just been established with peculiar
magnificence by Augustus. His 1. arm is raised, but the hand which
once held the rhyton is lost. On the 1. side is a similar figure of a Lar,
holding the laurel bough in his 1. His head and the upper part of his
body are lost. At the back are remains of a wreath with ribbons. On
the base are two mouldings, the upper adorned with a row of lotus flowers,
the lower with two rows of overlapping laurel leaves arranged horizontally
and facing towards the centre, where they meet under a ribbon. At the
top are a row of dentils and an egg-and-tongue moulding, enlivened by
an acorn motive. The acorn is doubtless introduced in allusion to the
oaken rwwza rz'zA% bestowed upon Augustus.
On the top of the altar are two y^zzAzzzz' connected at back and front
by two double strap-volutes, with rosettes in the eyes, and palmettes in
the six angles.
Moderate work of the Augustan period.
The altar, as the inscription shows, was dedicated by the
&zbz'A^AAz'of the ninth year, probably A.D. 2, the reorganization of the
cult of the Lares by the urban zAz'under the management of the zAo77z<%Az'rz*
having been completed in the year *74*7 A. v. c. (B. c. *7), although some
zAz' dated the new arrangement from the year *742 or 74 g.
Found in 1889 in Via Arenula at the corner of Via S. Bartolomeo
de' Vaccinari. The altar was z'zz -sAzr, resting on an inscribed block of
travertine, part of which with the first letters of the inscription could not
be removed.
Gatti, ZWA Owz. xvi (4888), pp. 327 ff., xvii (1889), pp. 69 ff., pi. iii; AA. A.
1888,p.498; Hulsen,7?cvz.ylAV.iv(i889), pp.26gff.; Altmann, GZAVZi'rg,p.176,
no. 232, figs. :4i, 141^; Wissowa in Roscher, ii, p. 1893, s.v. Zzz/Yj, fig. 6% (F;
Jordan-Hiilsen, i. 3, p. 521 f. ; Strong, Zcz/zzzzz SirM/zVzzrg, p. 74, pi. xxiii,
C. ZZ. vi. 30957.
M. 10465, 10466, 10467.
3. BUST OF ROMAN LADY (pi. 25)-
H. .56 m. Pentelic marble. Restored : lower half of nose. R. ear damaged,
1. almost destroyed.
On a bust draped with tunic fastened on the r. shoulder, and mantle,
head of young woman turned slightly to r. and looking upwards. Hair
parted in the middle, waved back, leaving ears free, and gathered up into
a large coil above neck. Round, smooth features. Mouth tightly closed.
Eyebrows incised ; iris and pupil rendered.
Ordinary work of the late Antonine period. There is no ground
75
background is a wreathed lictor carrying long fasces. In the foreground
is a bullock to r. with the sacrificial band round his belly; he is followed
by a boar with a similar band. Behind the bullock is the nude upper
part of a or sacrificial attendant. He is followed by another
nude from the waist upwards with a garment covering his lower limbs.
On his 1. shoulder he carries a mallet with a long handle, and in his r.
hand a sacrificial knife. This group is on a smaller scale than that round
the altar. Above in the field is the inscription. On the r. side on a
projecting plinth is the figure of a wreathed Lar, wearing a short tunic,
knotted round the waist. In his r. hand he holds a large bough of laurel,
the tree sacred to Apollo, whose cult had just been established with peculiar
magnificence by Augustus. His 1. arm is raised, but the hand which
once held the rhyton is lost. On the 1. side is a similar figure of a Lar,
holding the laurel bough in his 1. His head and the upper part of his
body are lost. At the back are remains of a wreath with ribbons. On
the base are two mouldings, the upper adorned with a row of lotus flowers,
the lower with two rows of overlapping laurel leaves arranged horizontally
and facing towards the centre, where they meet under a ribbon. At the
top are a row of dentils and an egg-and-tongue moulding, enlivened by
an acorn motive. The acorn is doubtless introduced in allusion to the
oaken rwwza rz'zA% bestowed upon Augustus.
On the top of the altar are two y^zzAzzzz' connected at back and front
by two double strap-volutes, with rosettes in the eyes, and palmettes in
the six angles.
Moderate work of the Augustan period.
The altar, as the inscription shows, was dedicated by the
&zbz'A^AAz'of the ninth year, probably A.D. 2, the reorganization of the
cult of the Lares by the urban zAz'under the management of the zAo77z<%Az'rz*
having been completed in the year *74*7 A. v. c. (B. c. *7), although some
zAz' dated the new arrangement from the year *742 or 74 g.
Found in 1889 in Via Arenula at the corner of Via S. Bartolomeo
de' Vaccinari. The altar was z'zz -sAzr, resting on an inscribed block of
travertine, part of which with the first letters of the inscription could not
be removed.
Gatti, ZWA Owz. xvi (4888), pp. 327 ff., xvii (1889), pp. 69 ff., pi. iii; AA. A.
1888,p.498; Hulsen,7?cvz.ylAV.iv(i889), pp.26gff.; Altmann, GZAVZi'rg,p.176,
no. 232, figs. :4i, 141^; Wissowa in Roscher, ii, p. 1893, s.v. Zzz/Yj, fig. 6% (F;
Jordan-Hiilsen, i. 3, p. 521 f. ; Strong, Zcz/zzzzz SirM/zVzzrg, p. 74, pi. xxiii,
C. ZZ. vi. 30957.
M. 10465, 10466, 10467.
3. BUST OF ROMAN LADY (pi. 25)-
H. .56 m. Pentelic marble. Restored : lower half of nose. R. ear damaged,
1. almost destroyed.
On a bust draped with tunic fastened on the r. shoulder, and mantle,
head of young woman turned slightly to r. and looking upwards. Hair
parted in the middle, waved back, leaving ears free, and gathered up into
a large coil above neck. Round, smooth features. Mouth tightly closed.
Eyebrows incised ; iris and pupil rendered.
Ordinary work of the late Antonine period. There is no ground