Inv. n°: MMoCA494

Roman Marble Cinerarium

The front with a bordered panel in bold capitals reading: D(is).M(anibus) - PHILOTEC - HNO.ET - FELICIORI - FECIT - AELIA - EVTYCHIS Wich translates : "To the Shades of the Dead. For Philotechnus and Felicior, Aelia Eutychis did (this)" On the right side is carved an oinochoe and on the left a patera, references probably (and surely) to the funerary rites and offerings.

h. 80 x w. 38 cm

1st-2nd century AD

Marble

Provenance

  • Ex collection Pino Donati, Lugano (Switzerland), 1958
  • Acquired at Charles Ede LTD from Maastricht Fair, London, 14th March 2010

Publications

  • in Hermann Dessau (ed.), Corpus Inscriptiones Latinorum XIV, Ostia, 1887, no. 1466

Exhibitions

  • The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), MECC, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2001 — 2001
  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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