3 - 3. 3W A Roman marble funerary plaque fragment, circa 1st-3rd…

Estimate €1,800 - €2,200

Description

3. 3W A Roman marble funerary plaque fragment, circa 1st-3rd Century A.D. Inscribed with Latin text reading: D M/CAECILIAE TERTIA[E ] /MATRI DULCISSIM[AE ]/FECIT/CAECILIA IRENE[.]/FILIA/BM, "To the Spirits of the Departed. Caecilia Irene, her daughter, made (the tomb) for Caecilia Tertia, her beloved mother" 31cm high, 27.5cm wide, Some loss to text on the upper and right sides, traces of red paint remian in the text Provenance E. van Dijk (1942-2024) Collection, Netherlands, acquired circa 1960-1995. Literature P. J. Sijpesteijn, Lateinische Grabinschriften III, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik,Bd. 90 (1992), p.194, plate XV no. 4

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