About the Artwork
Funerary Monument of M. Manneius Amphio
1st century CE
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Roman
Unknown
Marble
Overall: 33 × 20 1/2 × 12 inches (83.8 × 52.1 × 30.5 cm)
Stone and Stonecarving
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Gift of Edsel B. Ford
37.178
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Markings
Inscribed, on front of monument: DISMANIBVS | M-MANNEI- AMPHIONIS | M-MANNEIVS-ZETHVS | FRATER GEMINO | CARISSIMO | BENE MERENTI | MANNEIA-LAMYR | PATRONO OPTIMOET | DIGNISSIMO | FERCERVNT [translated: To the departed spirits: Marcus Manneius Amphio. Marcus Manneius Zethus, his brother, for his dearest and well-deserving twin, and Manneia Lamyr, for her best and most worthy patron, made (this)].
Provenance
Arturo Grassi
Edsel B. Ford (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Corpus Inscriptionem Latinarum, vol. 6, no. 21992.
Visona, Paola. Zeitschrift Fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik Band 52 (1983): p. 82-84, pl. III no. 2.
Bodel, John, and Stephen Tracy. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist. Rome, 1997, p. 129 [published by the American Academy in Rome].
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Roman, Funerary Monument of M. Manneius Amphio, 1st century CE, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edsel B. Ford, 37.178.
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