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Roundel with busts of a man and a woman
Roman
Late Imperial Period
about A.D. 250–270
Place of Manufacture: Italy, probably Lazio or Campania
Medium/Technique
Marble, probably from the Greek island of Paros
Dimensions
Overall: 46 x 48 cm, 39.9 kg (18 1/8 x 18 7/8 in., 88 lb.)
Framed (Aluminum circular wall L-frame /one securement top wall clip): 3.6 x 40.6 x 5.7 cm (1 7/16 x 16 x 2 1/4 in.)
Framed (Aluminum circular wall L-frame /one securement top wall clip): 3.6 x 40.6 x 5.7 cm (1 7/16 x 16 x 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from a bequest of Benjamin Rowland, Jr.
Accession Number1990.242
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionThe man is in a toga contabulata with a rotulus or scroll in his left hand. The woman wears a billowing cloak and a tunic and places her left arm and hand around the shoulders of the man. There is no inscription, little weathering, some encrustation.
ProvenanceBy 1989: with Atlantis Antiquities, 40 East 69th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021; purchased by MFA from Atlantis Antiquities, May 23, 1990