Collection Cinerary Urn

Cinerary Urn

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About the Artwork

Cinerary Urn

3rd century AD

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Roman

Unknown

Marble

diameter at base: 17 1/2 in. 44.5 cm diameter at top: 14 3/4 in. 37.5 cm inside diameter: 11 3/8 in. 28.9 cm height: 14 7/8 in. 37.8 cm

Stone and Stonecarving

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund

37.194

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Markings

Inscribed within frame of molding: D M / P. PVBLIODAO/ P.PVBLILIVSHILARVS/ET.P.PVBLILIVSAGATHON/PATRONOETFRATRI/ OPTIMOETIVNIA/COSMIASCONIVGI/BENEMERENTI/FECERVNT "To the departed spirits: P. Publi[li]us Davus. P. Publilius Hilarus and P. Pulilius Agathon, for their patron and excellent brother, and Junia Cosmias, for her well-desreving husband, have made (this memorial)."

Provenance

Listed in the CORPUS INSCRIPTIONEM LATINARUM (see references) as found in the vineyard of a villa at the chiliometrum (thousand-foot marker?) of the ancient Via Ostiensis.

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Published References

CORPUS INSCRIPTIONEM LATINARUM vol 6, no 25170+A--(4).

John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist; published by the American Academy in Rome (Rome 1997) p.129.

BULL. ARCH. MUNICIP., 1876, p 158.

Visona, Paola. Zeitschrift Fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik Band 52, 1983 p. 84-86, Pl. III #3.

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Roman, Cinerary Urn, 3rd century AD, Marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund, 37.194.

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