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Funerary Plaque with Cleaver and Boar
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Marble funerary plaque, inscribed "FELICI IN PACE" (To Felix, in peace), above a depiction of a meat cleaver and a boar, standing in profile to the left. The inscription may have been carved on a reused floor tile.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Professor Wild Williams College Amherst MA (d. early 1940's) gift; to Professor Wetmore Williams College Amherst MA (?-1960) sold by estate; through [Hesperia Arts Philadelphia PA] (1961); to The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University (1961-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Funerary Plaque with Cleaver and Boar
Description:
Marble funerary plaque, inscribed "FELICI IN PACE" (To Felix, in peace), above a depiction of a meat cleaver and a boar, standing in profile to the left.
The inscription may have been carved on a reused floor tile.
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