Top of a marble funerary relief with portrait busts of a young man and an elderly woman

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Although it is broken below, enough of this relief is preserved to show that the man wears a cloak, perhaps a lacerna, and the woman wears what is probably a palla. The shared features of the pair suggest that they are son and mother. The woman's hairstyle is close to that worn by Faustina the Elder, the wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius.

Top of a marble funerary relief with portrait busts of a young man and an elderly woman, Marble, Roman

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Top of a marble funerary relief with portrait busts of a young man and an elderly woman, Marble, Roman
Top of a marble funerary relief with portrait busts of a young man and an elderly woman, Marble, Roman

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