Subject
Epitaph bearing an inscription in Latin for Caius Cornelius Antistianus (CIL VI.16161).
You read: D · M C · CORNELIO ANTISTIANO CORNELIA · SABI NA · FILIO · PIENT ISSIMO · ET CORNELIVS THIASVS · PAT VIXIT · A · II · M · VI D XII.
Transliteration: D(is) M(anibus) C(aio) Cornelio Antistiano Cornelia Sabi/na filio pient/issimo et Cornelius Thiasus pat(er) vixit a(nnis) II m(ensibus) VI d(iebus) XII.
Translation: “To the spirits of the deceased. Cornelia Sabina and Cornelius Thiasus, (his) father, (made this) for an extremely pious son, Caius Cornelius Antistianus. (He) lived two years, six months (and) twelve days”.
 
Accession number 1805,0703.190
Marble
1st century B.C. – 2nd century A.D.
 
Provenance
Found in a columbarium close to the point in which the Via Appia and the Via Latina begin and in Ficoroni collection in years 1731-1733.
 
Placement
The British Museum
 
Credits
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1805-0703-190
 
References
B. Cook, Documenting the Townley Marbles, London, British Museum, 2013, n. 260.
 
G. Henzen – I.B. De Rossi – E. Bormann, C. Huelsen, M. Bang et al., CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (16161), Berlin, 1876-.

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Alabaster funerary urn, bearing an inscription in Latin.
You read: FLAVIAE VALENTINAE.
Transliteration: Flaviae Valentinae.
Translation: “To Flavia Valentina”.
 
Accession number 1814,0704.430
Alabaster
Height 22.86 cm
Approximately 200 A.D.
 
Provenance
Found near the Via Latina in 1772 (Townley)
 
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
 
Credits
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1814-0704-430
 
References
P.C. Bol (ed.), Forschungen zur Villa Albani. Katalog der antiken Bildwerke. I. Bildwerke im Treppenaufgang und im Piano nobile des Casino, Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1989, p. 209, note 4 (C. Gasparri).
 
B.F. Cook, Documenting the Townley Marbles, London, British Museum, 2013, n. 87.
 
G. Henzen – I.B. De Rossi – E. Bormann, C. Huelsen, M. Bang et al., CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (18458), Berlin, 1876-.
 
A.H. Smith, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, vol. III, London, BMP, 1904, pp. 369-370, n. 2416.

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Portrait head of Antisthenes, Roman copy of a Greek original dating back to about 200-160 B.C.
 
Accession number 1873,0820.724
Marble
Height 39.37 cm
120-140 A.D.
 
Provenance
Found on the Via Appia
 
Collocazione
The British Museum
 
Crediti
The British Museum
 
References
F.N. Pryce – A.H. Smith, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892-1928.

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Portrait head of a bearded man, after a Greek original dating back to about 200-160 B.C.
 
Accession number 1873,0820.727
Marble
Height 38 cm
With damaged parts (nose and ears)
120-140 A.D.
 
Provenance
Found on the Via Appia
 
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
 
Credits
The British Museum
 
References
F.N. Pryce – A.H. Smith, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892-1928.

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Portrait head of the well-known philosopher Epicurus, after a Greek original dating back to about 200-160 B.C.
 
Accession number 1873,0820.726
Marble
Height 48.26 cm
120-140 A.D.
 
Provenance
Found on the Via Appia
 
Placement
The British Museum
 
Credits
The British Museum
 
References
F.N. Pryce – A.H. Smith, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892-1928.

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Marble epitaph with inscription in Latin (CIL VI.27459).
You read: TITIENIAE · D · L · PI [ P · TITIENIVS · Ɔ · L · HY[ FECIT · ET · SIB[
Transliteration: Titieniae D(ecimi) l(ibertae) Pi[ P(ublius) Titienius C(aiae) l(ibertus) Hy[las?] fecit et sib[i—].
Translation: “Publius Titienius Hy(las?), freedman of a woman, made (this) for Titienia Pi(?), freedwoman of Decimus, and for himself”.
 
Accession number 1973,0108.97
Marble
Height 12.50 cm; width 28 cm
1-300 A.D.
 
Provenance
Found on the Via Appia
 
Placement
The British Museum (storage)

Credits
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1973-0108-97
 
References
G. Henzen – I.B. De Rossi – E. Bormann, C. Huelsen, M. Bang et al., CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (27459), Berlin, 1876-.

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Slab with inscription in Latin (CIL VI.37859a), bearing the name of the owner of a niche inside a columbarium on the Via Latina, consisting of five rows of niches and identified as “Tomb of the XXXVI socii”.
You read: P · SONTI · Ɔ · L · PHILOSTORGVS SORS · I · LOCO · III.
Transliteration: P(ublius) Sonti(us) ((mulieris)) l(ibertus) Philostorgus sors I loco III.
Translation: “Publius Sontius Philostorgus, freedman of a woman, first row, third niche” (first row means the bottom row).
 
Accession number 1900,0517.1
Marble
1-200 A.D.
 
Provenance
Found on the Via Latina
 
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
 
Credits
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1900-0517-1
 
References
A Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum, London, British Museum, 1908 (III ed.), p. 136.
 
D. Booms, Latin Inscriptions, London, British Museum Press, 2016, pp. 45-46.
 
G. Gatti, ‘Singolari iscrizioni dell’aedificium XXXVI sociorum sulla Via Latina’, in “BCom” 10, 1882, pp. 3-28.
 
G. Henzen – I.B. De Rossi – E. Bormann, C. Huelsen, M. Bang et al., CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (37859a), Berlin, 1876-.

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