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White marble Roman funerary altar with a carved bust of a woman with curled hair in an arched niche, and a Latin inscription below.

Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche

A white marble funerary altar with a rectangular base and molded cornice. A recessed arched niche on the front holds a carved bust of a woman with a tightly curled, layered hairstyle and draped garment. Below, a short inscription in Latin runs across the base, its letters partly worn.

Artist
Unknown
Date
ca. 90–100 CE
Medium
Marble
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2882 × 3842 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 105).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Philip Hofer, 1938

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