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Fountain Basin
Fountain Basin

Fountain Basin

CultureRoman
Date220 C.E.
MediumCipollino marble
DimensionsOverall: 50 1/2 × 90 inches (128.27 × 228.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number31-98
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • Rozzelle
Collections
DescriptionA great breciated green marble bowl.Provenance

With Ugo Jandolo, Rome, by June 27, 1931;


Purchased from Jandolo, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

Published References

Robert Cohon, “Roman Metrics and Roman Sarcophagi,” in Römische Sarkophage: Akten des Internationalen Werkstattgesprächs, 11. -13. Oktober 2012 (Graz), ed. Barbara Porod and Gabriele Koiner (Graz: Uni Graz, 2015), 75, (repro.).

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