Roman funerary urn (cinerarium) with a name-plate in the form of a maltese cross and a separate lid.
Luna marble
Height: 25cm
Height (excluding lid): 17.5cm
Width (lid): 30.5cm
Length (lid): 25cm
Height (excluding lid): 17.5cm
Width (lid): 30.5cm
Length (lid): 25cm
Inscription: D M / P. CVRVIO / CRESCENTINO / CONIVGI B. M
D[is] M[anibus] P[ublio] Curvio Crescentino coniugi b[ene] m[erenti]
Inscription marks: Line 1: 18mm; Lines 2-3: 17mm; Line 4: 15-21mm.
Inscription note: [This does not appear to have been published in CIL.]
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. To Publius Curvius Crescentinus, well-deserving husband.
D[is] M[anibus] P[ublio] Curvio Crescentino coniugi b[ene] m[erenti]
Inscription marks: Line 1: 18mm; Lines 2-3: 17mm; Line 4: 15-21mm.
Inscription note: [This does not appear to have been published in CIL.]
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. To Publius Curvius Crescentinus, well-deserving husband.
Museum number: M376
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 327
On display: Catacombs
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