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Roman (late 1st century A.D./first half of the 2nd century A.D.)
Funerary Altar of Claudius Hyllus
Marble
92.5 x 66 x 43 cm (36 ½ x 26 x 17")
Inscribed
“Diis Manibus / Claudio Hyllo / vix(it) ann(is) IIII mens(ibus) VII /
dieb(us) V Claudius / Tauriscus pater filio / karissimo”
"To the Spirits of the Departed. For Claudius Hyllus, who lived four
years, seven months, and five days. Claudius Tauriscus, father, [did
this] for his dearest son"
Provenance
“Girisôtis”, at his home by the "Forum Iudaeorum", Rome, recorded
there by Cyriacus of Ancona (1391-1452), c. 1433
Gentile Baffi, Palazzo Tebaldeschi (Torre del Melangolo), Rome, recorded there by Giovanni Giocondo (c. 1433-1515), c. 1450-1515
Palazzo Tebaldeschi, Rome, recorded in Codex Ambrosianus A, 55
fol. 34, late 15th century
In the vestibule of the “domus Albertini” in rione Campitelli, recorded there by Mariangelo Accursio (1489-1546), before 1535
Cardinal Paolo Emilio Cesi (1481-1537), Palazzo Cesi on the Janiculum, Rome, by 1535, recorded there by Jean Matal (c. 1510-1597)
and by descent to Cardinal Federico Cesi (1500-1565), Palazzo Cesi
on the Janiculum, Rome
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716-1799), Rome
Sir William Petty Fitzmaurice (1737-1805), 2nd Earl of Shelburne
and later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Lansdowne House, London, c.
1776
And by descent to Henry Petty Fitzmaurice (1872-1936), 6th Marquess of Lansdowne, Lansdowne House, London
His sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Ancient Marbles the Property of the Most Honourable The Marquess of Lansdowne, 5 March 1930, lot 30
Bert Crowther, Syon Lodge, Isleworth, by 1956, sold by him circa
1970
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