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4. 4W A Roman marble funerary plaque fragment, circa 1st-3rd…
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4. 4W A Roman marble funerary plaque fragment, circa 1st-3rd…
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
4. 4W A Roman marble funerary plaque fragment, circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.
Inscribed with a Latin text reading: [D] M/ US.EUTYCHES/[FECIT ?]IAE PRIMI/[?CON]IUGI. SUAE/[LIBERTIS LI]BERTABUS/[POSTERISQU]E EORUM, "To the Spirits of the Departed. Eutyches erected (the tomb) for Primi, his wife, and for her male and female freedmen and their descendants"
24cm high, 19cm wide
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.195, plate XV no. 5
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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