8-5049 (previous museum number (recataloged from)) and FW 2107 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Vase—Roman cinerary urn: fluted foot, torus, gadroons, 2 wyverns face 2 candelabra right and left of tablet framed in beads, which bears the inscription: AVRELio VICTORI.EQuitisSINGularis (TVRmae) IVRe CONSTANTINI. NATione DACVS ALLECTus Ex. ALA. I [rpima] ILLY.RICORum VIXit ANnos XXXIII MILitavit ANnos XIII. VLPIVS MACEDO. ET. VLPi(an)us MATERNVS. DVPLixi HEREDitate b.m.f. Under tablet, an Arabesque of Acanthus. Frize of bucrania and garlands. Fluted lid with bead acanthus ornaments. Vatican Museum--i.e. Museo Gregoriano, Vatical Palace. Place of discovery unrecorded to hand. The candelabra are a common sepulchral symbol.