Funerary inscription / Marble / Pigment

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1110a
Object Name: Funerary inscription
Lot: DeCriscio, Guiseppe
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Funerary inscriptions
Materials: Marble; Pigment
Width: 59.5 cm
Height: 40.5 cm
Thickness: 2.2 cm
Pierced: no
Inscribed: yes
Artifact Obverse Inscription: Aurelius Hospitianus (and ) Julius Serenus to Julia Dioscorous who lived 18 years, 6 days, well deserving (it), they erected (this).
Full Artifact Description: Coarse, grained, gray -green marble with bands of green schist. Flat grave marker with Latin inscription in Greek transliteration; fairly neat lettering, but no guidelines, or shading, back and 3 sides rough; top edge smooth, with groove at back --trace of projecting molding at base. Broken into three large pieces, not mended.
Subjects: undecorated
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Language: Greek; Latin
Inscription Obverse Text: Aurelius Hospitianus (and ) Julius Serenus to Julia Dioscorous who lived 18 years, 6 days, well deserving (it), they erected (this).
Publication Title: Ins. Gr. Sic. et Ital.; Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
Publication Year: 0000
Type Category: Inscription

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1110a
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1110a/0000_00_1110p02.tif

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Full citation: "Funerary inscription; Marble; Pigment." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1110a/0000_00_1110p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 01, 2024.