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LOT 0607
Roman Mixed Architectural and Pottery Group
1ST CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
2 - 7 1/4 in. (1.57 kg total, 5-18.5 cm).
Including Spartan Basalt, mined in Greece, cut and polished on one side; one marble fragment marked in pencil: 'VILLA / HADRIAN', another: 'OSTIA / ANTICA'; a large amphora handle; seven pottery fragments; a carved decorative edge stone; a marble core fragment; a later floor tile fragment; with an old handwritten slip with: 'VILLA HADRIAN, AUSTRIA ATICA, Nr. ROME, ITALY.' and on the inside: 'AUSTRIA ATICA / (/ VILLA HADRIAN / (outside Rome, in nowadays Tivoli)'. [14, No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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