A Roman Marble Loculus Plaque with Funerary Inscription for Martial, late 1st/2nd Century A.D.

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A Roman Marble Loculus Plaque with Funerary Inscription for Martial

late 1st/2nd Century A.D.

engraved with five lines of heavily abbreviated Latin inscription reading D(is) M(anibus) / Gn(aeus) Cos(sutius) Sa=/cos Mar(tiali) f(ilio) / s(uo) q(ui) v(ixit) an(nis) V> / m(ensibus) XI d(iebus) X ("To the Spirits of the Departed. Gnaeus Cossutius Sacos [made this] for his son Martial who lived five years, eleven months, and ten days"), the area below carved in relief with a seahorse facing left within a recessed panel.

36 by 20 by 3 cm.

Prof. Casper John Kraemer, Jr. (1895-1958), Professor of Classics at New York University, New York, acquired in Rome prior to 1954

private collection, Oakland, california

acquired by the present owner from the above in 2001

Published

Donald W. Prakken, "Funerary Inscriptions in New York", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 58, no. 4, October 1954, p. 321, no. 1, pl. 65

John Bodel and S. Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist, Rome, 1997, p. 205 (2)

Année épigraphique, 2014, no. 187 (4)

Greek and Latin Inscriptions at New York University, 2014, pp. 82-83, no. 27 (David Starr)

U.S. Epigraphy Project, NY.NY. NYU.L.27 (https://usepigraphy.brown.edu/projects/usep/inscription/NY.NY.NYU.L.27/)

Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, EDR030926

Prof. Casper J. Kraemer purchased several inscriptions on behalf of New York University in 1932. Of the six inscriptions in his own collection, which were all published as his by D. Prakken in 1954, he later gave the majority to the antiquities collection of the Classics Department at New York University and retained the present one. Starting in 1997, however, publications of the present monument erroneously assumed that it formed part of the group he had given to the University, where it was listed as lost.