Fragmentary Epitaph - Freed Slaves

Sculpture

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Hammond Castle Museum

Name/Title

Fragmentary Epitaph - Freed Slaves

Entry/Object ID

HM-331.16

Tags

Pacifici purchase

Description

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 Pacifici Inscribed: IBERTABVS QVEOMNIBVS AGRP XII TRANSCRIPTION [ suis liberti]s libertabus= [que posteris]que omnibus. [In f(ronte) p(edes) XII in] agr(o) p(edes) XII. TRANSLATION [ for their freedmen] and freedwomen and all [their descendants]. [In width, twelve feet, in] depth, twelve feet [USEP HCM.L.Tmp97.6.17]

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.Tmp97.6.17] HM-331.16 Fragmentary Epitaph - Freed Slaves