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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
the beginning of the third century a.d. The ears are
perforated for metal earrings.
Each recess is framed by a wreath of laurel, and fluted
in conventional imitation of a shell. Between them is a
vertical staff (?) with laurel leaves in relief, and tied
about the middle with two cords. A rosette is in each
spandrel round the medallions.
Below is a tablet with moulded frame, and with wings
at the ends, containing the inscription, which states that
Antistius was master of the Alban College of the Salian
priesthood.
L(ucius) Antistius Gn(aei) f(ilius) Hor(atia) Sarculo, Salius
Albanus, idem Mag(ister) Saliorum.
Antistia, L(ucii) l(iberta) Plutia.
JRufus l(jbertus), Antlms l(ibertus) imagines de suo fecerunt
patrono et patronae, pro mentis eorum.
Italian marble. Height, 2 feet inches; width, 3 feet inches.
Restored: nose of Antistia. The nose of Antistius had been
restored, but the restoration has since been removed. Boissard,
III., pi. 137 ; Grater, p. 318, 2 ; Orelli and Henzen, No. 2247 ;
Mansell, No. 1239 ; C.I.L., VI., 2170. This relief was attached
to the wall of a house in Trastevere, about 1510. In 1545 it
was in the collection of Bruto della Valle ; thence apparently it
passed to the collection of the Palazzo della Valle-Capranica,
but if this was the case, it was not included in the sale of the
della Valle collection to the Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, in
1584. In 1801, the relief was in the collection of Lord Bess-
borough at Roehampton. Purchased, 1858. See C.I.L., loc. cit. :
Michaelis, Jahrbuch des Inst., 1891, pp. 218-235 ; Gentleman's
Magazine, 1801, p. 323. For a second inscription (now lost)
to the same persons, see C.I.L., VI., 2171.
2276. Sepulchral relief. Two elderly female busts, in high
relief, within a sunk panel. They turn their heads to
each other, and clasp right hands. The figure on the
right holds the folds of her mantle with the left hand.
She has a ring on the third finger.
Inscribed Fonteia G(aiae) l(iberta) Eleusis: HOD(AT)A
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
the beginning of the third century a.d. The ears are
perforated for metal earrings.
Each recess is framed by a wreath of laurel, and fluted
in conventional imitation of a shell. Between them is a
vertical staff (?) with laurel leaves in relief, and tied
about the middle with two cords. A rosette is in each
spandrel round the medallions.
Below is a tablet with moulded frame, and with wings
at the ends, containing the inscription, which states that
Antistius was master of the Alban College of the Salian
priesthood.
L(ucius) Antistius Gn(aei) f(ilius) Hor(atia) Sarculo, Salius
Albanus, idem Mag(ister) Saliorum.
Antistia, L(ucii) l(iberta) Plutia.
JRufus l(jbertus), Antlms l(ibertus) imagines de suo fecerunt
patrono et patronae, pro mentis eorum.
Italian marble. Height, 2 feet inches; width, 3 feet inches.
Restored: nose of Antistia. The nose of Antistius had been
restored, but the restoration has since been removed. Boissard,
III., pi. 137 ; Grater, p. 318, 2 ; Orelli and Henzen, No. 2247 ;
Mansell, No. 1239 ; C.I.L., VI., 2170. This relief was attached
to the wall of a house in Trastevere, about 1510. In 1545 it
was in the collection of Bruto della Valle ; thence apparently it
passed to the collection of the Palazzo della Valle-Capranica,
but if this was the case, it was not included in the sale of the
della Valle collection to the Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, in
1584. In 1801, the relief was in the collection of Lord Bess-
borough at Roehampton. Purchased, 1858. See C.I.L., loc. cit. :
Michaelis, Jahrbuch des Inst., 1891, pp. 218-235 ; Gentleman's
Magazine, 1801, p. 323. For a second inscription (now lost)
to the same persons, see C.I.L., VI., 2171.
2276. Sepulchral relief. Two elderly female busts, in high
relief, within a sunk panel. They turn their heads to
each other, and clasp right hands. The figure on the
right holds the folds of her mantle with the left hand.
She has a ring on the third finger.
Inscribed Fonteia G(aiae) l(iberta) Eleusis: HOD(AT)A