13¹⁄₂ x 12¹⁄₄ x 10³⁄₄ in (34.3 x 31.1 x 27.3 cm.)

Said to have been found at Pozzuoli (modern-day Puteoli).
Father Giuseppe de Criscio (1826-1911), acquired by 1878.
Belgium private collection, acquired 1970.
Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic Antiquities, Sotheby's, 8 December 2011 lot 31.

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Vol. X, Berlin, 1883, p. 973, no. 8166.
H.-G. Pflaum, Les carrières procuratoriennes sous le Haut Empire romain, Paris, 1961, p. 185.

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2012-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA785).

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Most of the de Crisco collection of antiquities and inscriptions was acquired by the University of Michigan in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The inscription reads, ‘… of Gaius Artorius Cilo’.