A Roman double funerary urn (cinerarium) wtih separate lid
Pentelic marble
Height: 35cm
Height (excluding lid): 26cm
Width (lid): 47.5cm
Length (lid): 34.5cm
Height (excluding lid): 26cm
Width (lid): 47.5cm
Length (lid): 34.5cm
Inscription: 1) (LH side): L. PONTIVS / PINVS
L[ucius] Pontius Pinus
2) (RH side): PONTIA / CHRESTE / CONLIBERTA / EIVS
Pontia Chreste conliberta eius
Inscription marks: Faint traces of the lettercutter’s guidelines are visible.
1) Line 1: 17-20mm; Line 2: 15mm.
2) Line 1: 17-19mm; Line 2: 14mm; Line 3: 10-14mm; Line 4: 11mm.
Inscription note: 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) Lucius Pontuis Pinus.
2) Pontia Chreste his fellow freed(woman).
L[ucius] Pontius Pinus
2) (RH side): PONTIA / CHRESTE / CONLIBERTA / EIVS
Pontia Chreste conliberta eius
Inscription marks: Faint traces of the lettercutter’s guidelines are visible.
1) Line 1: 17-20mm; Line 2: 15mm.
2) Line 1: 17-19mm; Line 2: 14mm; Line 3: 10-14mm; Line 4: 11mm.
Inscription note: 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) Lucius Pontuis Pinus.
2) Pontia Chreste his fellow freed(woman).
Museum number: M421
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 332
On display: Catacombs
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