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Description: | Sepia photograph taken from Savile's original glass plate negatives of the excavations at The Temple of Diana, Nemi, Italy in 1885. This image depicts 'Portrait, Bust and Stele. Fundilia, Daughter of Caius Rufa, found in shrine of M.Servilius Quartus, "Artemisium." 'and has a card border with a label beneath. The image all four sections of the sculpture in front of a painted doorway [NCM 1890-1355/827] with a further inscription propped up against her base '..TONTIVS.Q.F.D.D.DI..' The reverse of the image is stamped with the 'Corporation of Nottingham Art Museum' crest in purple ink, below it in pencil '26,' below it also in pencil '1/2 plate glass neg no 58 box 6,' and below that in blue biro 'no. BM. Copy,' referring to copies at The British Museum. Wallis catalogue p81, herm found in the Servilius Quartus Room, marked MMA on Giammiti's plan.
Accession number: NCM 1890-1357/5 | Subjects: | religion sculpture Roman antiquities | Temporal: | 1885 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | excavator/photographer Savile Lumley/Lord John | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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