Round cinerary urn carved with genii and sphinxes.
Luna marble
Height: 64cm
Height (excluding lid): 42.5cm
Height (pedestal, excluding square base): 12cm
Height (frieze): 23cm
Circumference (lid): 100cm
Height (excluding lid): 42.5cm
Height (pedestal, excluding square base): 12cm
Height (frieze): 23cm
Circumference (lid): 100cm
Inscription: D. M / AROALIE / F. S VX. ANN. XI / AROIA. FIL
Inscription note: This is a very odd inscription and CIL considers it to be false. The only conceivable expansion might be:
D[is] M[anibus] Aroali<a>e f[iliae?] S v<i>x(it] ann[is] XI Aroia fil[iae] [fecit?]
“To the spirits of the departed. To Aroalia? daughter? of ?, who lived eleven years. Aroia ?set it up for her daughter?”
However Tupman believes this would be stretching the material too far, and thinks it almost certainly belongs where CIL has placed it, under ‘Falsae’. Tupman has been unable to find any Greek or Latin names that correspond with the names given in this inscription.
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 note: This is a very odd inscription and CIL considers it to be false. The only conceivable expansion might be:
D[is] M[anibus] Aroali<a>e f[iliae?] S v<i>x(it] ann[is] XI Aroia fil[iae] [fecit?]
“To the spirits of the departed. To Aroalia? daughter? of ?, who lived eleven years. Aroia ?set it up for her daughter?”
However Tupman believes this would be stretching the material too far, and thinks it almost certainly belongs where CIL has placed it, under ‘Falsae’. Tupman has been unable to find any Greek or Latin names that correspond with the names given in this inscription.
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: M778
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 355
On display: Dome Area
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