Cantius stele
The Cantius stele is a Roman grave stele created around the year 100 AD in the form of a rectangular aedicula from Noricum .
The pedestal having the dimensions 288 × 116 × 29 cm is made of Gummerner marble manufactured and is divided into four horizontal sections: the Tympanonzone is formed by a triangular gable, one in the middle Gorgoneion is shown; there are two outward-facing dolphins in the spandrels. The section below shows the portrait medallions of the client Lucius Cantius Secundus and his wife Cantia Bonia, wreathed with laurel, between two twisted columns. In the lower part of the picture is the medallion of the daughter, Cantia Boniata, also set in a laurel wreath, which is flanked by a standing boy and a girl. The grave inscription of the lowest section reads:
"L (ucius) Cantius / Secundus v (ivus) f (ecit) sib (i) / et Cantiae Iuni (i) f (iliae) / Boniae uxori et / Cantiae L (ucii) f (iliae) Boniatae"
"Lucius Cantius Secundus built (this tomb) during his lifetime for himself and his wife Cantia Bonia, daughter of Junius, and for Cantia Boniata, daughter of Lucius."
The stele was embedded in the outer wall of the Graz parish church of St. Leonhard until 1818 and then became a gift in the collection of the Landesmuseum Joanneum . Today it is in the lapidarium of the Eggenberg Castle Archaeological Museum .
literature
- Erich Hudeczek: The Roman stone collection of the Landesmuseum Joanneum. A guide through the lapidary . Ed .: Landesmuseum Joanneum. Graz 2004, p. 18-19 .
Web links
- Grave stele of the Cantii . University of Graz - Faculty of Humanities. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
- The stele at ubi-erat-lupa.org