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206 SALA GlA DELLA TENSA 15—DELLE TOMBE 1, 2
and Mars. On the right side : traces of a seated male figure with
sceptre.
The cippus, which is made up of ten fragments, was dedicated in
A.D. 241 under Gordian by sixteen natives of the V%/zb on the
Danube in Lower Moesia.
Found in the Piazza Manfredo Fanti.
Patsch, s. v. Z?z7?zM772; Hitlsen, ZzZ/. G7772. xxi (1893), p. 266, tab. 10-11.
GZZ. vi. 32349.
SALA DELLE TOMBE
1. SARCOPHAGUS OF CREPEREIA TRYPHAENA (pi. 79).
H. -43 m., 1.. 2 m., W. -6 m. Pentelic marble. Unrestored.
One long side of the sarcophagus is striated and the short end at the
foot is roughly carved with a scene in low relief; a girl lies upon a couch,
half raised on her 1. elbow, and rests her head upon her r. hand which
she has placed upon her 1. shoulder; she wears a thin garment and her
hair is gathered into a knot at the back. A bearded man, clad in a long
undergarment and mantle, leans at the head of the couch, his face distorted
by grief. A veiled matron at the foot of the couch sits watching the girl.
The couch has turned feet and is of the high-backed Roman type (see
Ransome, A/ZW 277 Hzzrziw/ p. 60). On it is a striped
mattress and a bolster (high at the back and curving downward to the
front). A curtain draped right across the background and looped up at
either side defines the scene as an interior. The technique is curiously
angular, the lines being deeply cut rather than carved. The composition
is a simple variation of the ordinary Roman death-bed scene (e. g. Cug in
Saglio, art. figs. 3357, 3358).
Found in 1889 in making the foundations for the Palazzo di
Giustizia, together with the sarcophagus of one Crepereius Euhodus,
perhaps the father of the girl. Each sarcophagus contained the skeleton.
ZW/. G7772. xvii (1889), p. 173 sq., p. 495, no. 1; A^z*. Gr<z&z, 1889, p. 189.
G Z Z. vi, 35061.
2. FRAGMENT OF A HISTORICAL WALL-PAINTING (pi. 79).
H. -843 m., Br. -46 m.
The picture, painted in fresco on a cream ground, is arranged in
superposed tiers, traces of four of which are preserved. The following
description follows Visconti's, which, as A. J. Reinach has shown (Z?<r. <rzZ),
is correct in all essentials. On the first tier only the r. leg and 1. foot of
a male figure turned to r. are preserved. On the second, a conference
between two leaders, whose names, M. Fannius and Q. Fabius, are
inscribed, is represented ; Fannius, fully armed with a large oval shield,
helmet with double crest, orziMz? or greaves, round his loins,
and a goat-skin over his shoulder, appears to issue from the fortress
behind him to confer with Fabius, of whom only the r. leg and arms are
and Mars. On the right side : traces of a seated male figure with
sceptre.
The cippus, which is made up of ten fragments, was dedicated in
A.D. 241 under Gordian by sixteen natives of the V%/zb on the
Danube in Lower Moesia.
Found in the Piazza Manfredo Fanti.
Patsch, s. v. Z?z7?zM772; Hitlsen, ZzZ/. G7772. xxi (1893), p. 266, tab. 10-11.
GZZ. vi. 32349.
SALA DELLE TOMBE
1. SARCOPHAGUS OF CREPEREIA TRYPHAENA (pi. 79).
H. -43 m., 1.. 2 m., W. -6 m. Pentelic marble. Unrestored.
One long side of the sarcophagus is striated and the short end at the
foot is roughly carved with a scene in low relief; a girl lies upon a couch,
half raised on her 1. elbow, and rests her head upon her r. hand which
she has placed upon her 1. shoulder; she wears a thin garment and her
hair is gathered into a knot at the back. A bearded man, clad in a long
undergarment and mantle, leans at the head of the couch, his face distorted
by grief. A veiled matron at the foot of the couch sits watching the girl.
The couch has turned feet and is of the high-backed Roman type (see
Ransome, A/ZW 277 Hzzrziw/ p. 60). On it is a striped
mattress and a bolster (high at the back and curving downward to the
front). A curtain draped right across the background and looped up at
either side defines the scene as an interior. The technique is curiously
angular, the lines being deeply cut rather than carved. The composition
is a simple variation of the ordinary Roman death-bed scene (e. g. Cug in
Saglio, art. figs. 3357, 3358).
Found in 1889 in making the foundations for the Palazzo di
Giustizia, together with the sarcophagus of one Crepereius Euhodus,
perhaps the father of the girl. Each sarcophagus contained the skeleton.
ZW/. G7772. xvii (1889), p. 173 sq., p. 495, no. 1; A^z*. Gr<z&z, 1889, p. 189.
G Z Z. vi, 35061.
2. FRAGMENT OF A HISTORICAL WALL-PAINTING (pi. 79).
H. -843 m., Br. -46 m.
The picture, painted in fresco on a cream ground, is arranged in
superposed tiers, traces of four of which are preserved. The following
description follows Visconti's, which, as A. J. Reinach has shown (Z?<r. <rzZ),
is correct in all essentials. On the first tier only the r. leg and 1. foot of
a male figure turned to r. are preserved. On the second, a conference
between two leaders, whose names, M. Fannius and Q. Fabius, are
inscribed, is represented ; Fannius, fully armed with a large oval shield,
helmet with double crest, orziMz? or greaves, round his loins,
and a goat-skin over his shoulder, appears to issue from the fortress
behind him to confer with Fabius, of whom only the r. leg and arms are