Part of a Slab from a Columbarium

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.

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