Epitaph of Gnaeus Lucretius Priscus

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1977.216.1896
Title: Epitaph of Gnaeus Lucretius Priscus
Classification: Inscriptions
Work Type: inscription
Date: mid 1st-2nd century CE
Places: Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
Period: Roman Imperial period, Middle
Culture: Roman
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/287107

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 36 x 35 x 4.5 cm (14 3/16 x 13 3/4 x 1 3/4 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, Purchased in Rome
Accession Year: 1977
Object Number: 1977.216.1896
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI (1902), no. 38577a.
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. 21, p. 7
John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A checklist, American Academy in Rome (New York, 1997), p. 51.

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