Funerary Relief with Busts of Popillius and Calpurnia
A.D. 1–20
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 65 × 96 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-250748
Shown are the frontal busts of a man and a woman, Popillius and his wife, Calpurnia. They are identified as freed slaves in the Latin inscription on the windowlike frame surrounding their portraits. Popillius wears a tunic with a toga over it; his right hand rests on a draped fold of fabric. His hair is combed forward in short curls to form a square frame for his forehead; the locks fork above his nose. Calpurnia wears a tunic with a mantle over her shoulders, and her hair is fashioned in a nodus above her forehead. A lock of hair hangs down behind each ear and onto her tunic in the front. This type of funerary monument was commissioned by the families of former slaves as a sign of their elevated social status.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
Registry history
- A.D. 1–20 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — sculpture
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