Indiana University Bloomington, Poole 133

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS504

Shelfmark:

Poole 133

Title:

Inscription

Author:

Marcus Ulpius Julianus

Marcus Ulpius Julianus WIKIDATA

Nene

Nene WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

s. IV; 300-399

fourth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Other decoration, 1 item: Letters now partially enhanced with traces of modern chalk.
Script, 1 item: Roman font, capitals; monumental inscription.
Layout, 1 item: Dorse is incised within a ruled frame 190 by 288 mm.

Former Owner(s):

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.

George N. Olcott WIKIDATA

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.

George Amos Poole WIKIDATA

Associated Agent(s):

Ulpius Portensi

Ulpius Portensi WIKIDATA

Antiochus

Antiochus WIKIDATA

Note:

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.
Bibliography: Van Buren 1927, p. 24, nos 13-14.
1 item: Latin.
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.
Explicit, Face: DIS MANIBUS MARCUS ULPIUS IULIANUS FECIT SUO ULPIO PORTENSI.
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.
Explicit, Dorse: DIS MANIBUS NENE ANTIOCHO CONIUGI BENE MERENTI FECIT VIXIT ANNIS LXV.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Poole133_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Poole133_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington