Upper Corner of a Marble Funerary Relief with Portraits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011

Title: Top of a marble funerary relief with portrait busts of a young man and an elderly woman

Medium; Technique: Marble

Culture: Roman

Period: Mid-Imperial, Antonine

Date: ca. A.D. 138–141

Dimensions: Overall: 9 3/8 x 15 x 3 in. (23.8 x 38.1 x 7.6 cm)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1918

Accession Number: 18.145.47


Description:

Although it is broken below, enough of this relief is preserved to show that the man wears a cloak, perhaps a lacerna, and the woman wears what is probably a palla. The shared features of the pair suggest that they are son and mother. The woman's hairstyle is close to that worn by Faustina the Elder, the wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius.

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