print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Hh,13.4.3
- Description
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Illustration to Stuart and Revett's "The Antiquities of Athens" volume IV (London, 1816), vignette p. 1; an Istrian medal with two masks, one upside down, on one side and an eagle on the back of a dolphin on the reverse, set between six fragments of stone with Latin inscriptions.
Etching
- Production date
- 1816
- Dimensions
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Height: 93 millimetres
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Width: 238 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See also Hh,13.4.8 for more information on the contents and publication of this volume and general information on the Antiquities.
The vignette makes it quite clear that the second line of the inscription in the central fragment has been erased: Stuart remarks that it was published by Gruter, as Wheler and Spon relate, but that they must have taken the line from the manuscript of Valerio Ponte at Zara rather than from the marble itself, because they supply the gap with the name Septimius Severus. Stuart believes it should be the Licinius, which would give the dative 'Licinio', referring to the Emperor, whose name would have been taken out after his defeat by Constantine in 325.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Antiquities of Athens
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,13.4.3