BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
Property from a German Private Collection
A ROMAN MARBLE LOCULUS PLAQUE WITH FUNERARY INSCRIPTION FOR VEREIUS, A.D. 70-81
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Property from a German Private Collection
A ROMAN MARBLE LOCULUS PLAQUE WITH FUNERARY INSCRIPTION FOR VEREIUS, A.D. 70-81
with pedimented top and vestigial acroteria, engraved within a recessed panel with seven lines of Latin inscription reading D(is) M(anibus) Vereio / Domitiae / Domitiani ser(vo) / Prisca Domitiae / n(ostrae) contuber/nali k(arissimo) b(ene) m(erenti) fec(it) / v(ixit) a(nnos) XXX (“To the Spirits of the Departed. For Vereius, slave of Domitia [wife] of Domitian, Prisca, [slave] of our Domitia, made [this] for her dearest and well-deserving husband. He lived for thirty years”).
43.5 by 26 cm.
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Herbert Wollmann (1870-1937), German Ambassador to the Holy See, Rome, from 1907
Fritz Fremersdorf (1894-1983), Director of the Römisch-Germanische Museum, Cologne
by descent to the present owner
The inscription dates to the years during which Domitian’s wife, Domitia, had not yet received the title of Augusta, i.e. sometime between her wedding (A.D. 71) and her husband’s accession to the throne (A.D 80). See A. Martin, La titulature épigraphique de Domitien, 1987, p. 169.
On the Wollmann collection see E.-M. Cahn, “Herbert Wollmann. Sammler und Forscher (1870-1937),” Kölner Jahrbuch , vol. 46, 2013, pp. 179–207. On Fritz Fremersdorf’s long career and the acquisitions he made from Herbert Wollmann for his museum’s collections see https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Fremersdorf.