stela
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.76
- Description
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Rectangular limestone slab (stele) with an inscription in Oscan characters, five lines in total, arranged right to left, filled with red paint in modern times. Most of the original outer frame is missing, and part of the slabe has been restored in modern times. The text records the completion of a public work by the magistrate V. Popidius.
- Production date
- 300BC-100BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 41.91 centimetres
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Width: 30.48 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a later member of the same gens, see 2023,5002.1.
The inscription appears to have been reused as building material in the Porta di Nola (a gateway) in Pompeii, being inserted in its present broken condition.
For a comprehensive catalogue of Italic inscriptions, see Crawford et al. 2011. Volume 2 includes the material from Pompeii including this example (pp. 628-30, Pompei 8, with previous refs).
See also:
https://pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/the-oscan-epigraphic-habit/
Bibliography:
Crawford, M. M.H. (ed) 2011. Imagines Italicae. A corpus of Italic inscriptions. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studes Supplement 110. 3 volumes (London: Institute of Classical Studies).
- Location
- On display (G71/dc5)
- Exhibition history
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2015, 26 May-2 Nov, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Pompei el’Europa (1748-1943). Dalla Natura alla Storia
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.76