the remaining left panel carved with a hunter on horseback and another on foot attacking a wild boar with spears, each wearing a billowing himation, remains of a tree at right, the tabula ansata engraved with seven lines of Latin inscription translating, "To the Spirits of the Departed. To Lucius Florus Florentinus, son of Florus, of the Palatine tribe, Roman eques, Lucius Florus Euprepes, his freedman, dedicated this to his patron," the remaining edge of another panel at right carved with a fragmentary tree, suggesting a similar hunting scene.

Bianda Collection, Locarno, circa 1965
Galerie Serodine, Ascona, 1975
acquired by the present owner from the above at Cultura, Basel, in 2001

As shown and described, repaired break between horse and hunter figure, stress cracks through boar's proper right foreleg and in frame of panel below boar, weathered overall, scattered chips and abrasions.
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In a letter dated December 1st, 1989, Ines Jucker mentions a stylistically related example (B. Andreae, Die antiken Jagdsarkophage, Berlin, 1980, no. 241).

A Lucius Florus Euprepes is mentioned in an inscription from Ostia as having held the title of censor circa A.D. 251 (ILS 6149: M. Beard, et al., Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook, vol. 2, p. 301, no. 12.4c).