A ROMAN MARBLE INSCRIBED PANEL

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE INSCRIBED PANEL
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
With four lines of Latin text reading, 'To Caius Geminus Apseustus, [from] Geminia Chrysis [as his wife] to her patron and for herself and her family', with a border of undulating waves and lines at the top and sides and diagonal notches along the lower edge
15 x 6¾ in. (38.1 x 17.1 cm.)

Provenance

Leighton Wilkie (1900-1993) collection, USA.
The Leighton A. Wilkie Collection; Bonhams, London, 26 April 2007, lot 193.

Exhibited

The Wilkie Brothers Foundation, Illinois, USA, August 1969.

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Lot Essay

Caius Geminius Apseustus was possibly a freedman of a Roman named Caius Geminius, with the cognomen Apseustus having been his slave-name. His wife, Geminia Chrysis, was probably his own slave, originally named Chrysis, whom he married after granting her her freedom, hence the reference in the text to her patronus. The cognomen Apseustus is uncommon and is likely to have originated from the eastern Mediterranean region or Asia Minor.

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