ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Dedicatory Inscription

AAT Object Techniqueinscribing

AAT Object Form/Functionplaques (flat objects)

AAT Object Form/Functionpanels (ornament areas)

AAT Object Form/Functiontablets (information artifacts)

Place CreatedTunisia, Africa

CultureRoman

PeriodImperial

Dateca. 300 CE

MediumMarble (Pentelikon)

Credit LineMonique Brouillet Seefried Fund

Dimensions17 1/2 x 32 in. (44.5 x 81.3 cm)

Object number1995.007

Label TextThis fragmentary marble panel preserves five lines of a dedicatory inscription commemorating a public building project carried out in the Roman province of Africa Byzacena. It records that the project was under the authority of the consul Antiochus Eugenius and took place during the reigns of emperors Diocletian and Maximian. Incised guidelines are visible. The penultimate and ultimate rows of text both terminate with an inscised line-end marker.

Byzacena had been part of the larger province of Africa Proconsularis, which was established by the Romans following their defeat of the Carthaginian Empire in 146 BC. Corresponding to modern-day Tunisia, northeast Algeria, and northwest Libya, it was one of the richest provinces in the Roman Empire, but was divided into three separate provinces by Diocletian in the third century AD.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, December 1995 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - August 27, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 25, 2013 - July 31, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 8, 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesCharles Ede Ltd., Writing and Lettering XVI (1994), number 28.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 46.

ProvenanceEx private collection, Europe. United Kingdom art market. With Charles Ede Ltd., London, England, purchased October 24, 1991. Purchased by MCCM from Ede.

MarkingsLine end marks at ends of penultimate and ultimate lines

Status

On view

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