Base for a decorative shaft (candelabrum)
about 30–20 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueMarble, from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
DimensionsOverall: 110.8 × 59.7 × 58.4 cm (43 5/8 × 23 1/2 × 23 in.)
Credit LineCatharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession number96.702
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ProvenanceAccording to a letter from Edward Perry Warren, dated August 28, 1896, it was found in 1856 while a house was being built in the Borgo Nuovo, Rome; by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren from the collection of the Countess Maria della Porta Rodiani Carrara, Palazzo Lorenzana, Rome; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, October 1896
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
5th century
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
about A.D. 138–192
1st century A.D.
about mid-3rd century A.D.
about 490–480 B.C.
about 4th century B.C.
about 325 B.C. (?)
4th century B.C.