Funerary Altar of M. Ogulnius Iustus

Description Conservation Exhibitions Provenance Inscription Credit

Description This marble funeral stele is inscribed. In the right end is a ring, in the left a vase, unfinished. There is a clamp hole in each end near the top. The base and the top do not belong to the stele.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/05/1992	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

Medieval Writing and Calligraphy. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993-1994.

Provenance First reported by Fabretti in 1699 near the second milestone on the Via Appia, Rome; Villa Carpegna, Rome, by 1699; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Inscription] D M / M. OGVLNIO / IVSTO. FILIO / PIENTISSIMO / VIX. ANN. XV. MENS II. D. XXII / M. OGVLNIVS / IVSTVS. PATER / ET. SIBI. FECIT. [CIL VI 23414]

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902

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Creator

Roman (Artist)

Period

1st century CE (Roman Imperial)

Medium

marble
(Sculpture)

Accession Number

23.16

Measurements

H: 44 1/2 x W: 26 3/16 x D: 21 15/16 in. (113 x 66.5 x 55.7 cm); H without base and top: 25 11/16 x W: 10 7/16 x D: 18 in. (65.3 x 26.5 x 45.7 cm)

Geographies

Roman Empire (Place of Origin)
Italy, Roman Empire, Rome (Place of Discovery)

Location Within Museum

Not On View