Property from a German Private Collection
A ROMAN MARBLE LOCULUS PLAQUE WITH FUNERARY INSCRIPTION FOR VEREIUS, A.D. 70-81
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Property from a German Private Collection
A ROMAN MARBLE LOCULUS PLAQUE WITH FUNERARY INSCRIPTION FOR VEREI💯US, A.D. 70-81
with pedimented top and vestigial acroteria, engraved within a recessed panel with seven lines of Latin inscription reading D(is) M(anibus) Vereio / Domitiae / Domitiani ser(vo) / Prisca Domitiae / n(ostrae) contuber/nali k(arissimo) b(ene) m(erenti) fec(it) / v(ixit) a(nnos) XXX (“To the Spirits of the Departed. For Vereius, slave of Domitia [wife] of Domitian, Prisca, [slave] of our Domitia, made [this] for her dearest🉐 and well-deserving husband. He lived fꦛor thirty years”).
43.5 by 26 cm.
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Herbert Wollmann (1870-1937), German 𒅌Ambassador to the Holy See, Rome, from 1907
Fritz Frem🍬ersdorf (1894-1983), Director of the Römisch-Germanische Museum, Cologne
by descent to the present owner
August Oxé, “Fünfzehn Stadtrömische Inschriften,” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Römische Abteilung, vol. 57, 1942, pp. 22-23, no. 6
L’Année épigraphique, 1945, p. 34, no. 111
The inscription dates to the years during which Domitian’s wife, Domitia, had not yet received the title of Augusta, i.e. sometime between her wedding (A.D. 71) and her husband’s accession to the throne (A.D 80). See A. Martin, La titulature épigraphique de Domitien, 1987, p. 169.
On the Wollmann collection see E.-M. Cahn, “Herbert Wollmann. Sammler und Forscher (1870-1937),” Kölner Jahrbuch , vol. 46, 2013, pp. 179–207. On Fritz Fremersdꦛorf’s long career and the acquisitions he made from Herbert Wollmann for his museum’s collections see&nbs𒁏p;.