Epitaph for the daughter of Flavia Palatina

Sculpture

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Hammond Castle Museum

Name/Title

Epitaph for the daughter of Flavia Palatina

Entry/Object ID

HM-331.20

Tags

Pacifici purchase

Description

Epitaph for the daughter of Flavia Palatina. Broken marble tablet 1 of funeral memorials and fragments imbedded in wall on left side of courtyard archway Reportedly discovered 1926 in Roman catacombs Probably are part of the "inscriptions" purchased from Pacific TRANSCRIPTION [ D(is) ] ((hedera)) Manibus. [c. 22 pa]ter et Fl(avia) Palatina mater [c. 4 filiae carissi?]mae, quae vixit ann(is) [c. 7 mensibus die?]bus VI, fecerunt et 5[sibi et suis libertis li]bertabusque poste [risque eorum c. 5] et Valerio Iasoni [c. 21 T]heseo cum Cl(audia) Epigonen(i) [con]iuge. TRANSLATION To the Divine Spirits. [ (her) fa]ther and (her) mother, Flavia Palatina, made (this) [for (their) dearest daughter], who lived for [ ] years, [ months and] six days, and [for themselves and for their freedmen and free]dwomen and [their descend]ants, and for Valerius Iason, [ for T]heseus with Claudia Epigonen, (his) [wi]fe. [USEP HCM.L.Tmp97.6.23]

Collection

Sculpture

Acquisition

Accession

331 1-26

Made/Created

Notes

Date: 5 A.D. -- 15th c.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Slab, Tomb

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Funerary Objects

Nomenclature Class

Ceremonial Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

General Notes

Note Type

1951 Tour Manual 009

Note Type

1927-12-01 from Pacific (inscriptions, columns, urn, cow head, window)

Note Type

1927-12-30 ca from C Stein (Pacifici, T D Downing shipment, columns, capitals, heads, window)

Note Type

1928-01-01 ca from Armando Pacifici (Purchases Prices & sources)

Note Type

buswell_letter_1-17-1927_letterno51CAM_2

Note Type

[USEP HCM.L.Tmp97.6.23] HM-331.20 Epitaph for the daughter of Flavia Palatina