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| Keywords: Roman - Funeral Stele with Figure Guiding a Horse and Rider - Walters 2318 - Three Quarter.jpg This funeral stele depicts a figure guiding a horse with a rider Above are a standing and a seated figure The piece is the altar of M Junius Rufus and bears an inscription On the right and left ends are masks The top and back are cut out for the top of a trough The inside is hollow and there is ahole in the right end There are new pieces set in top The base is modern and has been removed The front of the bottom is modern as well AD 100 marble cm 95 3 56 5 45 7 accession number 23 18 29811 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Inscription Under arch SI Q VA TAMEN PIETAS GELIDOS MOVET RVSTICA M ANES / RVMPE MORAS SPES HAEC SOLA EST MIHI GRATIA VITAE ; Inscription Below the first inscription M IVNIO M F PAL RVFO / SOTERICHVS PAEDAGOG FECIT / HAE SUNT PARVAE TVAE MEAEQ SEDES / HAEC CERTA EST DOMVS HAEC COLENDA NOBIS / HAEC EST QVEM MIHI SVSCITAVI VIVVS place of origin Roman Empire Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
