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Roman Bronze Votive Tablet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011

Roman Bronze Votive Tablet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011
Title: Bronze votive tablet

Medium; Technique: Bronze

Culture: Roman

Period: Imperial

Date: ca. 2nd century A.D.

Dimensions: H.: 1 3/4 x 5 1/16 in. (4.4 x 12.9 cm)

Classification: Bronzes

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921

Accession Number: 21.88.172


Description:

The tablet is in the form of a small tabula ansata, often used as the frame for dedicatory or funerary inscriptions. Here it is inscribed on both sides with a dedication in Greek to the Egyptian god Serapis.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

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