The Urn of Luscinia Philumena. Considerations about its Roman Attribution and its Carmen Epigraphicum
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Roman Urn in Madrid, Art collectors in the seventeenth-twentieth centuriesAbstract
We studied a Roman urn that is exhibited at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid. It has a poetic inscription made in the early years of the seventeenth century, inspired by the Latin poets of Re Rustica and Naturalis Historia. The Latin text of the inscription was rightly considered spurious by the CIL editors. We make an iconographic analysis of the monument and a philological analysis of the poem, offering a new translation of it. Unpublished images of the urn are offered, especially the epigraphic text.Downloads
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