Sold for $938

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Lot Description

A Roman Marble Architectural Fragment

Circa 1st Century A.D.

Height 17 1/4 inches (44.5 cm).

Provenance:
Private Estate, Connecticut, acquired in the mid-1980s.
(with signed statement from estate executor)

Note:
According to the Roman Historian, Suetonius, Emperor Augustus once said, "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble". This fabled boast has been instrumental in our view of the classical world and influenced multiple Graeco-Roman revivals in art and architecture.

Condition Report

Height with base 18 1/2 inches.

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