A Roman funerary urn (cinerarium) with separate lid, its name plate flanked by tripods.
Pentelic marble
Height: 40cm
Height (body): 24cm
Width (lid): 34cm
Length (lid): 26cm
Height (body): 24cm
Width (lid): 34cm
Length (lid): 26cm
Inscription: D. M / M. CINCI / NICEPHORI
D[is] M[anibus] M[arci] Cinci Nicephori
Inscription marks: Lines 1-2: 18mm; Line 3: 15mm.
Inscription note: Solin dates this inscription to the second 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.
Inscription translation: To the spirits of the departed of Marcus Cincius Nicephor.
D[is] M[anibus] M[arci] Cinci Nicephori
Inscription marks: Lines 1-2: 18mm; Line 3: 15mm.
Inscription note: Solin dates this inscription to the second 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.
Inscription translation: To the spirits of the departed of Marcus Cincius Nicephor.
Museum number: M419
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 326
On display: Catacombs
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