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ANOTHER ROMAN MARBLE DEDICATION PANEL, with beaded and acanthus leaf border, carved with three lines of inscription reading:

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ANOTHER ROMAN MARBLE DEDICATION PANEL, with beaded and acanthus leaf border, carved with three lines of inscription reading:
"To the freedman Marcus Tarentius Varro Menippeus from Caecilius Rufinus Haterianus"
mid-1st Century B.C.
40½ x 16¾in. (102 x 41.5cm.)

拍品專文

Varro was referred to by Cicero, Quintillian and Augustine as "the most learned of the Romans". The name "Menippeus" is apparently a reference to his Menippean Satires which were based on those of the Greek author Menippus