Bidspirit auction | ROMAN MARBLE ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT

ROMAN MARBLE ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT - Ca. AD 1 - 100 A marble fragment from the jamb of a temple or palace portal. It is decorated with floral and plant motifs in high relief, a typical Augustean decoration of Rome. Similar motifs can be found on the decoration apparatuses of the Ara Pacis monument. For similar see: The British Museum, museum number 1805,0703.175. Size: 175mm x 175mm; Weight: 3.58kg Provenance: Private London collection, B.A.; formerly in pre-2000 European collection.