CIRCA LATE 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE STELE
CIRCA LATE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
30 11⁄16 in. (78 cm.) high x 1415⁄16 in. (38 cm.) wide

Provenance

Said to be from Ostia.
with Pino Donati, Lugano, Switzerland, acquired 1958.
with Charles Ede, London.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2010.

Literature

H. Dessau, ed., Corpus Inscriptionem Latinorum, vol. XIV, Berlin, 1887, p. 147, no. 1466.
Epigraphic Database Roma no. 165506.

Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA494).

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Lot Essay

The front is carved with a bordered panel inscribed in bold capitals reading: D(is) M(anibus) Philotechno et (but written as 'FT') Feliciori fecit Aelia Eutychis, which translates as: "To the Shades of the Dead (and) to Philotechnus and Felicior, Aelia Eutychis did (this)". The dedicator’s name, Aelia, indicates that she or her father became a Roman citizen in the reign of Hadrian (117–38 A.D.) and that he was quite likely an imperial freedman. On the right side is carved an oinochoe and on the left a patera, references to the funerary rites and offerings.

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