Ornamenting Empire · CIL 06, 08498 (p 3459, 3890) = ILCV 03332 = ICUR-06, 17246 (p 300) = D 01738 = ICaRoma 00006 = EAOR-01, 00001 = AE 1999, 00144 = AE 2006, +00150

Text Category

Inscription: funerary See all items with this value

Century Range

3rd century CE See all items with this value

Precise Date or Date Range

217

Location of Display

Latium: Rome: Via Labicana See all items with this value

Author

Unknown See all items with this value

Reference

CIL 06, 08498 (p 3459, 3890) = ILCV 03332 = ICUR-06, 17246 (p 300) = D 01738 = ICaRoma 00006 = EAOR-01, 00001 = AE 1999, 00144 = AE 2006, +00150

Language

Latin See all items with this value

Quotation

Prosenes receptus ad deum V Non(as) [Ma]ias(?) Sa[me in Cephalle]nia(?) Praesente et Extricato II (!) / regrediens in urbe ab expeditionibus / scripsit Ampelius lib(ertus) // M(arco) Aurelio Augg(ustorum) lib(erto) Proseneti / a cubiculo Aug(usti) / proc(uratori) thesaurorum / proc(uratori) patrimoni(i) proc(uratori) / munerum proc(uratori) vinorum / ordinato a divo Commodo / in kastrense patrono piissimo / liberti bene merenti / sarcophagum de suo / adornaverunt

Part of Speech

Verb (compound) (active) See all items with this value

Type of Thing Ornamented

Visual Work: Vessel: Funerary See all items with this value

Object/ Person Ornamented

Sarcophagus of Marcus Aurelius Prosenes

Type of Medium Ornamenting

Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief See all items with this value

Medium/a Ornamenting

Based on photo - sculpted relief - cornucopias, cupids, griffins, image of Prosenes reclining flanked by sleeping cubes sitting on a bundle of scrolls

Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting

Freedmen of the deceased

Bibliography

Carletti 1986: 32, nr. 6

Ferrua 1981

Deichmann et al. 1967: 387, nr. 929

Sabbatini Tumolesi 1988: 19-20, nr. 1

Lampe 1989: 278-281

Carletti 2006: 100, nr. 1

Carletti 2008: 131-132, nr. 3

McKechnie 1999: 131-132, nr. 3

Ramelli 2003: 36

Carletti 2001: 99

Borg 2013: 44-45

AE 1999: 174

CILCV: 3332

Notes

Christian sarcophagus. Now in the Park of the Villa Borghese

Item Identifier

A01679

Determination

Derived directly from text