Funerary Inscription / Marble / Plaster or mortar / Pigment

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.0973
Object Name: Funerary Inscription
Lot: DeCriscio, Guiseppe
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Funerary inscriptions
Materials: Marble; Plaster or mortar; Pigment
Ancient Reuse: Two monumental letters on reverse
Width: 22.0 cm
Height: 25.7 cm
Thickness: 5.4 cm
Pierced: no
Inscribed: yes
Artifact Obverse Inscription: DIS M Dis M(anibus); MAMIDIA Mamidia[e]; BENE MERE bene merien(ti); EVTYCES CONIV Eutyces coniux[; VITALIO FILIVS FEC Vitalio filius fec[it]; AMVLIAE OLY Amuliae oly[
Full Artifact Description: Medium grained gray marble. Flat grave marker, deeply cut, irregularly spaced lettering some rusticated forms, M,AA. On reverse portions of two letters from monumental inscription, possibly Agustan, very deeply cut. Slight chipping and scratching, some encrustation.
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Language: Latin
Inscription Obverse Text: DIS M Dis M(anibus); MAMIDIA Mamidia[e]; BENE MERE bene merien(ti); EVTYCES CONIV Eutyces coniux[; VITALIO FILIVS FEC Vitalio filius fec[it]; AMVLIAE OLY Amuliae oly[
Publication Title: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
Publication Year: 0000
Type Category: Inscription

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.0973
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.0973/0000_00_0973p01.tif

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Full citation: "Funerary 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-0000.00.0973/0000_00_0973p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 01, 2024.