Baiae; / Funerary Stele / Marble / Pigment
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.0949
- Object Name
- Funerary Stele
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Funerary inscriptions
- Width
- 27.7 cm
- Height
- 22.8 cm
- Thickness
- 2.0 cm
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- yes
- Artifact Obverse Inscription
- OBVERSE:
- MARIO PRI Mario Pri-
- SCO MARITVS sco Marius
- XENOFON Xenofon
- PATRONVS Patronus
- BEN MER FECIT Ben(e) Mer(enti) Fecit
- REVERSE:
- MISENAT cl. pr.] misenat(ae)
- QVI ...]qui
- BVSX vixit annis ... mensi]bus x
- O ...]o
- CIT Bene Merenti Fe ]cit
- Full Artifact Description
- Coarse grained gray/white marble. Flat grave marker= fragment of a larger earlier one, part of whose inscriptions preserved on reverse. Fairly good lettering- rather square, some quite long serifs. Reverse: letters proportionately taller and thinner, Closer to an attempt at a monumental style. Foliar interpunct. Broken and mended. Small piece missing from upper left corner. Obverse surface weathered.
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- Area
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- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy;
- Latitude
- 0;0
- Longitude
- 0;0
- Stratum
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- Component/Room Description
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- Artifact Marginalia
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- Remarks
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- Verbatim Site
- Baiae;
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Language
- Latin
- Inscription Obverse Text
- OBVERSE:
- MARIO PRI Mario Pri-
- SCO MARITVS sco Marius
- XENOFON Xenofon
- PATRONVS Patronus
- BEN MER FECIT Ben(e) Mer(enti) Fecit
- REVERSE:
- MISENAT cl. pr.] misenat(ae)
- QVI ...]qui
- BVSX vixit annis ... mensi]bus x
- O ...]o
- CIT Bene Merenti Fe ]cit
- Publication Title
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
- Publication Year
- 0000
- Type Category
- Inscription
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.0949
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0949/0000_00_0949p01.tif
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"Baiae;; Funerary Stele; Marble; Pigment." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0949/0000_00_0949p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 03, 2024.