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Plaster Cast: Tabula Ansata, Votive Ansate Tablet

1900.12.0090

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Artifact Identification Plaster Cast: Tabula Ansata, Votive Ansate Tablet   (1900.12.0090)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Documentary Artifacts
    3. :
  3. Declaratory Documents
Artist/Maker Emile Gillieron & Fils, Athens.
Geographic Location
Period Early Roman Empire
Date 1st century BCE to 1st century CE
Culture Roman

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 36.3 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 35.8 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 3.9 cm
Weight 4333 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Plaster
Manufacturing Processes Cast

Research Remarks

Description

Square plaque in bas-relief depicting two ears framed by a sort of portal, below which Latin inscription appears: "CVIIVS HAS AVRIS GAIIVS TIBI VOVERAT OIM PHOEBI GENAEI POSVIT SANVS AB AVRICVIS"
Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

CIL III, Sup. 1, 1311, no. 7266 = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. III, Northern and Eastern Provinces of the Empire (including Greece), Supplement 1, 1311, no. 7266.

IG IV2 1, 440 = Inscriptiones Graecae vol. IV part 1, Inscriptiones Epidauri, (1929) no. 440.

ILS II, 1, 3853 = Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, vol. II, part 1, no. 3853.

Weinreich, 1912 = AthMitt 37, 63ff = MDAI(A) 37, 63ff. = Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung. v.37 (1912) p.63f.

Versnel, H. S. 1981. Faith Hope and Worship. Aspects of Religious Mentality in the Ancient World. Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 2. Leiden: Brill. 122, no. 14.2. Available on Google books.com.

Hollander, Eugen. Plastik und
Medizin. Stuttgart, Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, 1912. p. 216, Fig. 125.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Classical Museum Purchase
Reproduction yes, Original in the Athens National Archaeological Museum no. 1428.

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