Religious Inscription / Marble / Plaster or mortar / Paint / Pigment
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1042
- Object Name
- Religious Inscription
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Religious inscriptions
- Width
- 41.0 cm
- Height
- 20.6 cm
- Thickness
- 5.5 cm
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- yes
- Artifact Obverse Inscription
- L GRATVS I O M ...[L(ibertus) Gratus I90ri) O(ptimo) M(aximo)
- SACRVM ] Sacrum
- Full Artifact Description
- Luna marble? Fragment of large dedication. Excellent monumental style lettering--somewhat square. Line 1 on lower plane in set-off inscription dis(see below) right side curved. Approximately 2 cm. wide strip on back right cut away and smoothly dressed. Back otherwise roughly chisled. Some surface discoloration. Broken away at left. Cut away at bottom?
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Language
- Latin
- Inscription Obverse Text
- L GRATVS I O M ...[L(ibertus) Gratus I90ri) O(ptimo) M(aximo)
- SACRVM ] Sacrum
- Inscription Obverse Translation
- The freedman (of [name missing], Gratus (gave it). To Jpiter Optimus, Sacred.
- Exhibition Title
- The Beginning of Understanding; Writing in the Ancient World
- Exhibition Curator
- Allen, Marti Lu
- Dix, T. Keith
- Publication Title
- Some New Inscriptions from Puteoli, Bauae, Misenum and Cumae
- American Journal of Archaeology
- Publication Author
- Dennison, W.
- Publication Year
- 1898
- Type Category
- Inscription
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.1042
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1042/0000_00_1042p01.tif
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"Religious Inscription; Marble; Plaster or mortar; Paint; Pigment". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1042/0000_00_1042p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 23, 2023.