Subject
Funerary altar representing a market scene, dedicated by Apelle, freedman of Claudius or Nero, and Asconia Quarta to L. Calpurnius Daphnus argentarius Macelli Magni. Found in the Calpurnia sepulchre in the archaeological area of the Tombs of the Via Latina.
The altar, currently in a private collection, provides clear chronological indication about the sepulchre’s use during the Neronian age. In this period the large market on Celio, where the deceased man carried out his job of money dealer.
Accession number –
Marble
Height 79 cm; width 41 cm; depth 34.5 cm; letters height between 0.4 and 2.7 cm
Second half of 1st cent. A.D.
Provenance
Tombs of the Via Latina, Calpurnia sepulchre
Placement
Massimo collection, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome.
Credits
Images by permission of the Massimo collection, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome.
References
AA.VV. Pecunia non olet. I banchieri di Roma antica, 2023, pp. 182-183.
CIL VI 9183 = ILS 7501 = Supplementa Italica. Imagines. Roma. 5, 5335 (F. Cerrone) = EDR0165457.
L. Fortunati, Relazione generale degli scavi e scoperte fatte lungo la via Latina, 1859, p.68, n.101.
J. Andreau, La vie financière dans le monde romain: les métiers de menieurs d’argent (IV° siècle av. J.C. – III° siècle ap. J.C.), Paris 2015.
