Rome, Via Appia; / Latin, Funerary / Marble / Plaster or mortar / Paint / Pigment
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1576
- Other Number
- KM Studies 4, 040
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- Latin, Funerary
- Lot
- Dennison, Walter
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Inscriptions on stone
- Width
- 21.2 cm
- Height
- 24.0 cm
- Thickness
- 3.1 cm
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- yes
- Artifact Obverse Inscription
- BVS [Dis Mani]bus
- VMV [sacr]vm
- Full Artifact Description
- Coarse grained grayish white marble. Probably columbarium slab. Double incised border around inscriptional field. Lettering is square proportioned Scriptura Capitalis. Pentagonally shaped fragment with right and bottom edge preserved. Brown discoloration. Reverse shows striated tool marks. Letters outlined in red.
- Verbatim Date
- 1st C AD
- Geography
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- Geographic Location
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- Context/Structure
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- Unit Grid Number
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- Component/Room
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- Feature
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- Burial/Area Number
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- Individual Number
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- Area
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- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy;
- Latitude
- 0;0
- Longitude
- 0;0
- Stratum
- ;
- Units
- ;
- Depth
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- Horizon
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- Triangulation Point
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- Bag Number
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- Find Date
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- Unit Grid Number Description
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- Unit Grid Number Marginalia
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- Component/Room Description
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- Component/Room Marginalia
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- Artifact Description
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- Artifact Marginalia
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- Remarks
- ;
- Verbatim Site
- Rome, Via Appia;
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Inscription Obverse Text
- BVS [Dis Mani]bus
- VMV [sacr]vm
- Publication Title
- Latin Inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum: The Dennison Collection
- Publication Author
- Baldwin, M & Torelli, M
- Publication Year
- 1979
- Type Category
- Inscription
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.1576
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1576/0000_00_1576p02.tif
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"Rome, Via Appia;; Latin, Funerary; Marble; Plaster or mortar; Paint; Pigment." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1576/0000_00_1576p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.