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A Roman double funerary urn (cinerarium) carved with pilasters and foliage and with a separate lid.
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A Roman double funerary urn (cinerarium) carved with pilasters and foliage and with a separate lid.
Pentelic marble urn with lid of Proconnesian marble
Height: 37.5cm
Height (excluding lid): 28cm
Width (lid): 52.5cm
Length (lid): 28cm
Height (excluding lid): 28cm
Width (lid): 52.5cm
Length (lid): 28cm
Inscription: 1) (LH side): M. NERIO. FAVSTO / NERIA. M. L. LAMPAS / PATRONO. SVO / MERENTI
M[arco] Nerio Fausto Neria M[arci] l[iberta] Lampas patrono suo merenti
2) (RH side): CASSIAE / HEḶPIDI
Cassiae Helpidi
Inscription marks: 1) Line 1: 12mm; Line 2: 9mm; Lines 3-4: 10mm.
2) Line 1: 11-13mm; Line 2: 13-15mm.
Inscription note: 1) Line 2: ligature AM.
1) and 2) have been inscribed by two different lettercutters. The right-hand inscription is almost cursive in its execution.
Solin dates this inscription to the first century A.D.
We are grateful to Dr. Charlotte Tupman, a scholar of epigraphy (the study of inscriptions) undertaking postdoctoral research at King’s College London, who took squeezes of the inscriptions on antiquities in the Museum in 2007, for her transliteration, translation and notes/bibliography of the inscription on this piece.
M[arco] Nerio Fausto Neria M[arci] l[iberta] Lampas patrono suo merenti
2) (RH side): CASSIAE / HEḶPIDI
Cassiae Helpidi
Inscription marks: 1) Line 1: 12mm; Line 2: 9mm; Lines 3-4: 10mm.
2) Line 1: 11-13mm; Line 2: 13-15mm.
Inscription note: 1) Line 2: ligature AM.
1) and 2) have been inscribed by two different lettercutters. The right-hand inscription is almost cursive in its execution.
Solin dates this inscription to the first century A.D.
We are grateful to Dr. Charlotte Tupman, a scholar of epigraphy (the study of inscriptions) undertaking postdoctoral research at King’s College London, who took squeezes of the inscriptions on antiquities in the Museum in 2007, for her transliteration, translation and notes/bibliography of the inscription on this piece.
Museum number: M423
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 324
On display: Catacombs
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Curatorial note
The framed name plates on this urn are flanked by three highly enriched composite pilasters. Below these are pendant acanthus scrolls between rosettes. There is a waterleaf moulding along the bottom edge of the urn. The ends are carved with incised circles. On the front of the lid, between fillet mouldings, are two sea panthers swimming left.
The name plates are inscribed:
Left: M·NERIO FAVSTO Right: CASSIAE
NERIA·M·L·LAMPAS HEJPIDI
PATRONO·SVO
MERENTI
The name plates are inscribed:
Left: M·NERIO FAVSTO Right: CASSIAE
NERIA·M·L·LAMPAS HEJPIDI
PATRONO·SVO
MERENTI
Provenance
Rome: this urn is recorded in a number of Renaissance Gardens on the Pincian Hill.
Literature
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) VI, iii, no.22920.
H. Solin, Die Griechischen Personennamen im Rom. Ein Namenbuch (2003), pp. 1240; 1292.
H. Solin, Die Griechischen Personennamen im Rom. Ein Namenbuch (2003), pp. 1240; 1292.
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