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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.1888
Title
Square Cippus with Sculptured Top of Palmette and Rosettes with Epitaph of Cornelia Corinthias
Classification
Inscriptions
Work Type
inscription
Date
mid 1st-2nd century
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
Period
Roman Imperial period
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/287438

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
42 x 21 x 20 cm (16 9/16 x 8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: epitaph in twelve lines in Latin,
    D . M
    CORNELIAE
    CORINTHIA
    DI . Q . ATILIVS
    MOSCHVS
    VXORI
    OPTIMAE
    FECIT
    CVM QVA
    VIXIT
    ANNIS . P . M .
    XXX[V]

    [Transliteration: D(is) M(anibus). Corneliae Corinthiadi Q(uintus) Atilius Moschus uxori optimae
    fecit, cum qua vixit annis p(lus) m(inus) XXX[V].]

    [Translation: To the Divine Shades. For Cornelia Corinthias, Quintus Atilius Moschus made (this) for (his) excellent wife, with whom he lived more or less 35 years.]

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
1977.216.1888
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. 13, p. 5
  • John Bodel, "Thirteen Latin Funerary Inscriptions at Harvard University", American Journal of Archaeology (1992), Vol. 96.1, 71-100, p. 88-89, no. 7, fig. 8.
  • John Bodel and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A checklist, American Academy in Rome (New York, 1997), p. 51.

Verification Level

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