Property from a North American Private Collection
A Roman Marble Loculus Plaque with Funerary Inscription for Martial, late 1st/2nd Century A.D.
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Property from a North American Private Collection
A Roman Marble Loculu𝓰s 🌠Plaque with Funerary Inscription for Martial
late 1st/2nd Century A.D.
engraved with five lines of heavily abbreviated Latin inscription reading D(is) M(anibus) / Gn(aeus) Cos(sutius) Sa=/cos Mar(tiali) f(ilio) / s(uo) q(ui) v(ixit) an(nis) V> / m(ensibus) XI d(iebus) X ("To the Spirits of the Departed. Gnaeus Cossutius Sacos [made this] for his son Marꦉtial who lived five ye♍ars, eleven months, and ten days"), the area below carved in relief with a seahorse facing left within a recessed panel.
36 by 20 by 3 cm.
Prof. Casper Jo🌊hn Kraemer, Jr. (1895-1958), Professor of Classics at New York University, New Yoꩵrk, acquired in Rome prior to 1954
private collection, Oakland, california
acquired by the present o♕wner from the above in 2001
Published
Donald W. Prakken, "Funerary Inscriptions in New York", American Journal of Archaeology, voဣl. 58, no. 4, Octo♒ber 1954, p. 321, no. 1, pl. 65
John Bodel and S. Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist, Rome, 1997, p. 205 (2)
Année épigraphique, 2014, no. 187 (4)
Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University, 2014, pp. 82-83, no. 27 (David Starr)
U.S. Epigraphy Project, NY.NY. NYU.L.27 /)
Electronic Archive ofꦡ Greek an꧃d Latin Epigraphy, EDR030926