About the Artwork
Pedestal
1st century CE
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Roman
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Marble
Overall: 27 3/8 × 17 11/16 × 11 3/8 inches (69.5 × 44.9 × 28.9 cm)
Sculpture
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Gift of Mrs. Allan Shelden
37.185
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, front of pedestal: IOVI.SABAZ. | Q.NVNNIVS | ALEXANDER | V.S.L.M. [translated: To Jupiter Sabazius: Quintus Nunnius Alexander has willingly and rightly fulfilled his vow.]
Provenance
Mrs. Allan Shelden II;1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Corpus Inscriptionem Latinarum, vol. 6, no. 429; 30766.
Dessau. Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 4086.
Visona, Paola. Zeitschrift Fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik Band 52 (1983): p. 79-82, pl. III no., 1.
Bodel, John and Stephen Tracy. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist. American Academy in Rome. Rome, 1997, p. 129.
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Roman, Pedestal, 1st century CE, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Allan Shelden, 37.185.
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