Inscription; Inscription (DS504) (Q2474)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Poole 133)
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Inscription; Inscription (DS504)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Poole 133)

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    Inscription
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    Inscription
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    Found and acquired probably in the region of Rome by George N. Olcott (1869-1912), American classicist in Rome; given by his widow to the American Academy in Rome by 1927; sold by the Academy through B. l. Ullman to George A. Poole in 1951, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
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    Other decoration, 1 item: Letters now partially enhanced with traces of modern chalk.
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    Script, 1 item: Roman font, capitals; monumental inscription.
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    Layout, 1 item: Dorse is incised within a ruled frame 190 by 288 mm.
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    Manuscript note: Much of the Olcott colletion is now in Columbia University Library. Tombstone was inscribed c.II and taken down and re-incised on the verso in the third or fouth century. The stencilled "175" in red may be earlier than Olcott's acquisition. Kept in a fawn cloth case.
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    Bibliography: Van Buren 1927, p. 24, nos 13-14.
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    1 item: Latin.
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    Face: Translation: "To the immortal shades, Marcus Ulpius Julianus made this for his son Ulpius Portensi." Ulpius was the family name of Trajan (emperor 98-117 A.D.) and afterwards became a common personal name in his honour. 'Portensi' is probably Portus 'Porto' in modern Italian, the harbour near Rome at the mouth of the Tiber, founded in the first century.
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    Explicit, Face: DIS MANIBUS MARCUS ULPIUS IULIANUS FECIT SUO ULPIO PORTENSI.
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    Dorse: Translation: "To the immortal shades, Nene made this for her well-desrving husband Antiochus; he lived 65 years." Nene is an unusual name, not apparently attested elsewhere in ancient Rome but known in the eastern Mediterranean.
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    Explicit, Dorse: DIS MANIBUS NENE ANTIOCHO CONIUGI BENE MERENTI FECIT VIXIT ANNIS LXV.
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    28 June 2023
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    28 June 2023
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