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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.1878
Title
Part of a Slab from a Columbarium
Classification
Inscriptions
Work Type
inscription
Date
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/287406

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
18 x 21 x 2.5 cm (7 1/16 x 8 1/4 x 1 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bought by Clifford Moore in Rome for the Department of the Classics, 1905-1906.
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
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.216.1878
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI (1902), no. 34381.
  • 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. 3, p. 2
  • John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A checklist, American Academy in Rome (New York, 1997), p. 49.

Verification Level

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