Currently not on view
Fragment of an imperial relief,
ca. 50–100 CE
Roman
Flavian
y1987-1
Information
Title
Fragment of an imperial relief
Dates
ca. 50–100 CE
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
16.0 x 13.0 x 8.5 cm (6 5/16 x 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Harry A. Brooks, Class of 1935
Object Number
y1987-1
Place Collected
Germany ?, Hamburg
Period
Materials
Subject
Said to have been acquired in Hamburg in the 1930s; purchased fromSotheby's, from a British private collection, in 1987.
- Ancient glass, ancient jewellery, Middle Eastern Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities also art reference books: 8th December 1986 ... and 9th December 1986, ... London, (London: Sotheby's, 1986). , lot no. 534 (Sotheby's negative no. FA 29767)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1987", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 47, no. 1 (1988): p. 30-54., pp. 51–52 (illus.)
- Brooks Levy, Rome and her enemies: the evidence of coinage: a supplement to the catalogue "Rome and the Germans" (nos. 1-176 of the exhibition), comprising materials added to the exhibit from the Princeton University collections, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1988).
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., p. 374-376; cat. no. 161
