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Inscriptions | Rome
21. INSCRIPTIONS. Rome.
A curse tablet (tabella defixionis).
Lead. Late 1st—early 2nd cent. CE.
Cremona, San Lorenzo Archaeological Museum.
22. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A gravestone of a praetorian.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 2574.
Fiesole, Municipal Archaeological Museum.
23. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cippus of freedmen Scantius Olimpus and Scantia Agela.
Sketch by G.-A. Dosio, ca. 1560.
Inv. No. N. A. 1159 (fol. 8r).
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.
24. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Marble statue of Marcus Nonius Balbus. Pedestal.
Marble. Second half of the 1st century BCE.
Herculaneum, terrace of Marcus Nonius Balbus.
25. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Pedestal of the Obelisk of Theodosius. East side.
Hippodrome of Constantinople.
390 CE.
Istanbul.
26. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Cornelia Antonia from Pisidia (inscription).
Marble.
160s—170s CE.
Inv. No. 8 T.
Istanbul, Archaeological Museum.
27. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Grave stele with family portraits and with a Greek inscription from Thessalonica.
Marble.
2nd—3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 194 T.
Istanbul, Archaeological Museum.
28. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A Roman funerary relief of Lucius Antistius Sarculo and his wife Antistia Plutia.
Marble.
Ca. 30—10 BCE.
Inv. No. 1858,0819.2.
London, British Museum.
29. TOREUTICS. Rome.
Sword of Tiberius. Detail of the scabbard: Tiberius and Augustus.
Ca. 15 CE.
Inv. No. 1866,0806.1.
London, British Museum.
30. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Funerary relief with portraits of the freedmen Publius Licinius Philonicus and Publius Licinius Demetrius.
Marble.
Ca. 30—10 BCE.
Inv. No. 1954,1214.1.
London, British Museum.
31. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Atrium with an inscription in honour of Pliny the Younger.
Milan, Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio.
32. INSCRIPTIONS. Rome.
Inscription in honour of Pliny the Younger.
Marble. 111—114 CE.
CIL V. 5262 = ILS 2927.
Milan, Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio.
33. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A votive monument (so-called “Altar of Angera”).
Marble from Ornavasso-Candoglia. 41—54 CE.
Inv. No. A 0.9.6774.
Milan, Civic Archaeological Museum.
34. INSCRIPTIONS. Rome.
Inscribed slab in honour of Germanicus.
Rosy marble. After 18 CE.
AE. 1995. 650.
Inv. Nos. A 0.9.17675 / St. 8628.
Milan, Civic Archaeological Museum.
35. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Fresco with serpent and graffiti from Pompeii.
50—79 CE.
CIL IV 1410.
Inv. No. 4694.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
36. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Medallion depicting the bust of a “poet” wearing laurel wreath and with scroll.
Fresco from Pompeii.
Inv. No. 120620 a.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
37. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Medallion depicting the bust of a “poet” wearing laurel wreath and with scroll.
Fresco from Pompeii.
Inv. No. 120620 b.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
38. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Isis-Fortuna-Demeter.
Fresco from Pompeii (IX. 7. 21).
45—79 CE.
CIL IV 3832.
Inv. No. 112285.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXXV.
39. INSCRIPTIONS. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion. The lid frieze: inscription and portrait of the deceased.
Marble.
Early 3rd cent. CE.
CIL XIV 565.
Inv. No. 47.100.4b.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
40. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cinerery urn of Julia Felicitas.
Roman work. Marble.
Ca. 69-98 CE (Flavian period).
Inv. No. L.1991.85.3.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (on loan).