Child Inscription / Marble / Plaster or mortar / Pigment

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.0940
Object Name: Child Inscription
Lot: DeCriscio, Guiseppe
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Child inscriptions
Materials: Marble; Plaster or mortar; Pigment
Width: 24.0 cm
Height: 23.0 cm
Thickness: 3.0 cm
Pierced: No
Inscribed: Yes
Full Artifact Description: Flat grave marker; shallow, crude and squat lettering with rustication of some forms (e.g. N,A,M) ; A’s without crossbars very thin E’s, no shading. - bottom right edges smooth, others and back rough . Overall weathering, chipping around edges. Coarse grain gray marble.
Subjects: undecorated
Earliest Date: 250
Production Site: Sites
Countermark: No
Language: Latin
Inscription Obverse Text: DM D(is) M(anibus); IVNIO SERAPIONI Iunio Serapioni; QVI VIX ANN III qui vix(it) ann(is) IIII; M VIII IVNIVS SEVE m(ensibus) VII Iunius Seve; RVS ALVMNO rus alumno; DVLCISSIMO B M F dulcissimo b(ene)m(erenti) f (ecit)
Type Category: Inscription

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.0940
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0940/0000_00_0940p01.tif

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Full citation: "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-0000.00.0940/0000_00_0940p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 15, 2024.