Child Inscription / Marble / Plaster or mortar / Pigment
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.0917
- Object Name
- Child Inscription
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Child inscriptions
- Width
- 23.3 cm
- Height
- 21.5 cm
- Thickness
- 5.5 cm
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- yes
- Artifact Obverse Inscription
- DI M D(is) M(anibus)
- L IGNATIVS L(icius) Ignatius
- FVSCVS Fuscus
- VIXIT ANNO I vixit anno I
- M XI M(ensibus) XI
- Full Artifact Description
- Flat grave marker, fairly uniform lettering, although roughly cut; guidelines- back left rough. Very slight encrustation and scratching.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Language
- Latin
- Inscription Obverse Text
- DI M D(is) M(anibus)
- L IGNATIVS L(icius) Ignatius
- FVSCVS Fuscus
- VIXIT ANNO I vixit anno I
- M XI M(ensibus) XI
- Inscription Obverse Translation
- Translation: To the gods of the Underworld.
- Lucius Ignatius
- Fuscus lived one year eleven months.
- Exhibition Title
- The Beginning of Understanding; Writing in the Ancient World
- Exhibition Curator
- Allen, Marti Lu
- Dix, T. Keith
- Publication Title
- Ephemeris Epigraphica, Vol. VIII
- Publication Year
- 0000
- Type Category
- Inscription
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.0917
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0917/0000_00_0917p01.tif
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"Child Inscription; Marble; Plaster or mortar; Pigment." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0917/0000_00_0917p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 07, 2024.