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| − | + | '''Modern Publication(s):''' Michaelis, ''Ancient Marbles'', p. 425 (Liverpool, no. 9); Gatty no. 4 | |
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'''Brief description:''' Funerary inscription | '''Brief description:''' Funerary inscription | ||
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'''Inscription Type:''' Funerary | '''Inscription Type:''' Funerary | ||
| − | '''Object Type:''' Round column of | + | '''Object Type:''' Round column of limestone. |
'''Material:''' Limestone | '''Material:''' Limestone | ||
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'''Original Location:''' Unknown | '''Original Location:''' Unknown | ||
| − | '''Provenance:''' Cyprus | + | '''Provenance:''' 'Cyprus, where Gen. Cesnola found others similar.' (Gatty) |
'''Date:''' {{{InscriptionDate}}} | '''Date:''' {{{InscriptionDate}}} | ||
| − | '''Dimensions:''' H 26 3/4 inches; diameter of column 8 3/4 inches | + | '''Dimensions:''' H. 26 3/4 inches; diameter of column 8 3/4 inches |
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== Web Links == | == Web Links == | ||
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== Image(s) == | == Image(s) == | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:33, 13 February 2015
Modern Publication(s): Michaelis, Ancient Marbles, p. 425 (Liverpool, no. 9); Gatty no. 4
Brief description: Funerary inscription
Attributes
Inscription Type: Funerary
Object Type: Round column of limestone.
Material: Limestone
Original Location: Unknown
Provenance: 'Cyprus, where Gen. Cesnola found others similar.' (Gatty)
Date: {{{InscriptionDate}}}
Dimensions: H. 26 3/4 inches; diameter of column 8 3/4 inches
Layout:
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: Unknown
Decoration: 'Round column with clumsy, curious, articulations at top and bottom, furnished with a hole on the top for fastening on an ornament or case' (Michaelis); 'roughly carved mouldings' (Getty)
Collection
Location: Unknown: lost probably during the Liverpool blitz, 1941
Collector: Presented to J. Mayer by Captain Fothergill of SS Thessalia
Date collected:
Accession or catalogue number: National Museums Liverpool (World Museum) 16.5.72.7
Translation
'O Epaphroditos, Good Man, Farewell!'
Bibliography
C. T. Gatty, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 4 (= Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 34 (1883) 39-66, no. 4).
A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge, 1882), p. 424 (Liverpool no. 6)
Web Links
Image(s)
Now lost; no known images are extant.
