A Roman Marble Funerary Plaque Inscribed for Quirinia Felicia, 1st half of the 1st Century A.D.

said to have been found in the Vigna San Cesareo, later absorbed into the gardens of the Collegio Clementino, Rome, 1731-1733

Francesco Ficoroni (1664-1747), Rome, circa 1733-1735

William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (1704-1793), Parkstead House, Roehampton

William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787-1872), Lowther Castle, Lowther, Penrith

Sotheby’s, London, June 29th, 1970, nos. 172-176

Folio Fine Art Ltd., London, 1970

acquired by the present owner at auction

Published

Guilelmus Henzen, Johannes Baptista de Rossi, and Eugenius Bormann, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. 6, part 4, fasc. 1, ed. Christianus Huelsen, Berlin, 1884, p. 2537, no. 25338

Folio Fine Art Ltd., London, Writing and Lettering in Antiquity, exh. cat., 1970, no. 52

Heikki Solin, ‘Analecta Epigraphica’, Arctos: Acta Philologica Fennica, vol. 16, 1982, p. 202

Alessandro Teatini, I Marmi Reksten e il Collezionismo Europeo di Antichità tra XVII e XIX Secolo, Rome, 2003, p. 128

Adelina Ramundo, Caratteri e trasformazioni del paesaggio urbano delle vigne intorno a S. Cesareo, PhD diss., Roma Tre University, Rome, 2012, p. 242-243, N. inv. 107

Epigraphic Database Roma, EDR129669.

Trismegistos Database, no. 587590

"Writing and Lettering in Antiquity", Folio Fine Art Ltd., London, October 9th-20th, 1970, no. 52, illus.