CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE FUNERARY INSCRIBED PANEL
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
9 3⁄4 in. (24.8 cm.) wide

Provenance

Probably from Ostia, recorded by C.L. Viscontio in the diocese of Bartolomeo Pacca (1756-1844) whilst in the suburbs of Rome.
Dr G.K., Munich, acquired 1960s or prior.

Literature

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Vol. XIV. Inscriptiones Latii veteris Latinae. Ed. H. Dessau, 1887, no. 681.

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Lot Essay

This funerary tablet was part of a large group likely collected from one of the many columbaria found along the roads leading out of the city of Rome towards the south. The Latin inscription reads: "To the spirit of the departed: Lucius Axilius Parthenopeus, to his excellent daughter Axsilia Tigris, who lived 21 years, 6 months".

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