altar

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Object Type
Museum number: 1868,0620.39
Description: A small square marble altar, damaged on the right side, with a bilingual inscription in Latin and Greek. The inscription is a dedication by Earinus, a freedman of the emperor and secretary to the procurator.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2ndC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Ephesus, Found near the Magnesian Gate
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 55.88 centimetres; Width: 39.62 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Bibliography: - C.I.L. III, 6081(and 7121) - J.T. Wood, Discoveries at Ephesos (1877) p. 12, and appendix 8, nr 17. - GIBM 564 - OGIS 523 - *IEph 1564.
Bibliographic references: Inscription / The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum (564); CIL III / Inscriptiones Asiae, provinciarum Europae Graecarum, Illyrici Latinae (6081)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1868,0620.39

Free entry