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Large Cinerarium

Date

A.D. 10–25

Medium

Marble

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Cinerary urn in the form of a chest with architectural decoration with pilasters on each corner. A wide pilaster, decorated by leaves, divides each long side into two fields. Each field is comprised by a modelled frame containing a richly decorated kantharos. Two drinking birds are placed on the rim of each kantharos. Front: a grave portal which includes several mountings and door pulls in the form of a lion's head. Staffs flank the door covered with laurel leaves and fruit. Rear: a gabled aedicula with two birds picking at a cherry(?). Pilasters flank a wreath of laurel leaves, containing a Lituus (augur's staff). The urn has four, relatively high, feet.

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