Rubbing of Latin inscription (CIVITATI SACRVM A. AEMILIVS ARTEMA FECIT)
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Rome (modern city), Lazio, Central Italy
Verbatim coll. place:
Found in Roma (Roma) in the province of Roma.
Culture or time period:
Roman Republic
Collector:
Alfred Emerson and Charles R. Morey
Collection date:
1902-1903
Inscription:
CIVITATI SACRVM A AEMILIVS ARTEMA FECIT
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Rubbings (visual works)
Function:
7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Accession date:
1905
Context of use:
This may have been a dedication by an ex-slave on securing manumission, honoring the citizenship that gave him a place in a community linked by that concept.
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Comment:
88 ara marmorea. In museo Vaticano MAR. ubi adhuc extat (Gall. lap. intranti a dextra). gryput cum candelabro CIVITATI SACRVM A-AEMILIVS ARTEMA FECIT Descripsi. Marini sched. Vat. 9124 vel 9125.