A Roman double funerary urn (cinerarium) and lid, carved with garlands held up by bukrania and dolphins at the lower front corners.
After Flavian period (see Sinn, p.60 cited below)
Pentelic marble
Height: 35cm
Height (excluding lid): 26cm
Width (lid): 52cm
Length (lid): 30cm
Height (excluding lid): 26cm
Width (lid): 52cm
Length (lid): 30cm
Inscription: 1) (LH side): D. M / Q. LICINIO. PR / ICO. CL. IASONIS / CONIVX. ET. Q / LICINIVS
D[is] M[anibus] Q[uinto] Licinio Prico Cl[audia] Iasonis coniu<n>x et Q[uintus] Licinius [fecerunt]
2) (RH side): CRISPINVS / FILIVS. B. M. F.
Crispinus filius b[ene] m[erens] f[ecit]
Inscription marks: 1) Line 1: 17mm; Line 2: 15mm; Lines 3-5: 14mm.
2) Lines 1-2: 14mm.
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: 1) To the spirits of the departed. Quintus Licinius Pricus, Claudia Iasonis his wife and Quintus Licinius (set it up).
2) Crispinus his well-deserving son set it up.
D[is] M[anibus] Q[uinto] Licinio Prico Cl[audia] Iasonis coniu<n>x et Q[uintus] Licinius [fecerunt]
2) (RH side): CRISPINVS / FILIVS. B. M. F.
Crispinus filius b[ene] m[erens] f[ecit]
Inscription marks: 1) Line 1: 17mm; Line 2: 15mm; Lines 3-5: 14mm.
2) Lines 1-2: 14mm.
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: 1) To the spirits of the departed. Quintus Licinius Pricus, Claudia Iasonis his wife and Quintus Licinius (set it up).
2) Crispinus his well-deserving son set it up.
Museum number: M422
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 329
On display: Catacombs
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