1977.216.1883: Funerary Inscription of Aufustia Hedone
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1977.216.1883
- Title
- Funerary Inscription of Aufustia Hedone
- Classification
- Inscriptions
- Work Type
- inscription
- Date
- second half 1st century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Early
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287022
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 39 x 84 x 7 cm (15 3/8 x 33 1/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: epitaph in six lines in Latin,
Diis Manibus.
Aufustiae Hedone; vixit
annis LXXXX. Fecit
Aufustia (mulieris) l(iberta) Stratonice
libertis libertabus posterisq(ue)
eorum. In fr(onte) p(edes) XII, in agr(o) p(edes) XVI.
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inscription: epitaph in six lines in Latin,
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Found in the necropolis at the Porta Salaria, between Via Valeria and Via Pinciana, February 1906.
Bought by Clifford Moore in Rome for the Department of the Classics, 1906.
Transfer from the Department of the Classics, 1977.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Purchased in Rome
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.216.1883
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Clifford Herschel Moore, Latin Inscriptions in the Harvard Collection of Classical Antiquities, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1909), Vol. 20/pp. 1-14, cat. no. 8, p. 3
- John Bodel, "Thirteen Latin Funerary Inscriptions at Harvard University", American Journal of Archaeology (1992), Vol. 96.1, 71-100, p. 80-82, no. 3, fig. 4.
- John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A checklist, American Academy in Rome (New York, 1997), p. 50.
Verification Level
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