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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.110
Title
Sepulchral Fragment with Inscription
Classification
Inscriptions
Work Type
inscription
Date
2nd century CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
Period
Roman period
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291611

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
9 x 18 x 2 cm (3 9/16 x 7 1/16 x 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Art Market, Rome (by 1905), purchase; by Prof. Clifford H. Moore, Cambridge, MA (1905-1931), inherited; by his wife, Lorena Ledbetter Moore, Cambridge, MA (1931- 1949), gift; to The Fogg Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. Norman Vuilleumier on behalf of Mrs. Clifford Moore's Estate
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.110
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Inscribed slab from a columbarium.
SALLVIA · L · L
ARESCVSA

Publication History

  • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI (1902), no. 38861.
  • 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. 39, p. 14
  • John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A checklist, American Academy in Rome (New York, 1997), p. 52.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/08/2020; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/02/2023 - 12/30/2023; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2024 - 01/05/2025

Verification Level

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