Naval Inscription / Marble
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.0878
- Object Name
- Naval Inscription
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Category
- Inscription
- Full Artifact Description
- Flat grave marker. Lines 1-3 monumental style. Lines 4-8 rusticated style. On reverse is cyma reversa at top and three letters of monumental inscription, probably Augustan Public style. Broken and mended.
- Gazda: Inscription. Marble.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Materials
- Marble
- Language
- Latin
- Inscription Text
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To the gods of the underworld. For Lucius Calpurnius Rufus clerk of the praetorian fleet at Misenum. This man, sent to Ephesus on business, died and there in a sarcophagus of marble he was buried. Marcus Sittus Africanus hid townsman and heir made this memorial at the camp.
Measurements
- Weight
- too heavy for lab scales
- Measurement Notes
- 38 cm x 29 cm x 2.6 cm
Date
- Date
- 71 - 214 AD
Publications and Exhibitions
- Publications
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Ephemeris Epigraphica, Vol. VIII.
Puteolana Analecta: Seven Inscriptions from the G. De Criscio Collection in the Kelsey Museum
Puteoli: Studi di Storia Antica. D'Arms, John. 1986. - Exhibitions
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The Beginning of Understanding: Writing in the Ancient World. 1991.
Upjohn Inscriptions. 2009.
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.0878
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0878/dscn1187.jpg
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"Naval Inscription; Marble." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0878/dscn1187.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 16, 2025.