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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.1882
Title
Funerary Inscription of Attia Daphne, Freedwoman of Sextus
Classification
Inscriptions
Work Type
inscription
Date
late 1st century BCE - early 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/287425

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stone
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
38 x 60 x 10 cm (14 15/16 x 23 5/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: epitaph in five lines in Latin,
    Attiae Sex(ti) l(ibertae) Daphne,
    Secundus Caesaris Aug(usti scil. servus)
    Erotian(us), contubernal(i)
    et sibi posterisq(ue) eorum.
    In fr(onte) ped(es) XII, in agr(o) ped(es) XXIIII.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Found in the Porta Salaria Necropolis, between Via Salaria and Via Pinciana, Rome, 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
1977.216.1882
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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. 7, p. 2
  • John Bodel, "Thirteen Latin Funerary Inscriptions at Harvard University", American Journal of Archaeology (1992), Vol. 96.1, 71-100, p. 79-80 , no. 2, fig. 3.
  • 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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