The Camposanto Monumentale cemetary in Pisa (page 2/32)

Bust with inscription, including date April 1726

Ioanni Antonio Corazza Pisano Philet Med Doctori
quiprimus in Patria Medicinamope sanioris philosopiæ
repurgatam salubriter exercens ob summam
integritatem prudentiam sagacitatem comitatem
et beneficentiam omnibus carus non modò à civibus
universis amorem sed à barbaris e tiam gentieus
venerationem expressit Unde et Tunetano Regno
imperitans potentissimus Rhamdamus suæ
valetudinis reparandæ causa ipsum ad se mittendu
ÃRC cosmi jjj M.D. Hetruriæ. impetravit
redivivam in Nepote virtut Avunculi probaturus
Ioannis Pagni insignis Antiquarii Phil et Med doct^is
et in hoc Athenæo celeberrimi professoris à Sereniss
Fernanto jj eàdem de causa eius Patruo Mahometi
felici pariter cum exitu dudum concessi
Pie c[b]it v id april mdccxxvi stylo Pis Ætatis suæ
anno lxxjv Post [p]ius ex Africa reditu xxxv
Fratri Optimo Petrus Raynerius I U D Primit Eccl Canon
ed Rominicus Gaspar de Corazzis
honorifico Pasani Senatus Decreto Pos???re [more...]

tombstone dated MCCCLXXXIII

The only date I can make out is I think mccclxxxiii which would be 1383. A shield beneath the inscription shows a tree. This tombstone was part of the floor in the Cemetery building in the Field of Miracles in Pisa; [...] [more...]

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Rectangular sarcophagus (end of 2^nd century A.D.) with the myth of Selene and Endimyon among genii and winged gryphons. Gable top with elevation with winged victories holding inscribed board. Reused in 1467 for Gherardo del Canfora. [more...]

Inscribed pillar

I can see Pisa mentioned neat the bottom of the text, but I know no more. It might be that MPIIII (where the M and P might have bars over them) is a date; if I take the P to be an inverted d it could be 1503, but I’m guessing in fact that the pillar is Roman, and dates from no later than A.D.300, in which case any date would not be relate to the supposed birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew from Palestine who didn’t get his own calendar until rather later. The letters are roughly hewn, and there may be traces of pigment or paint in them, [...]> [more...]

Second century A.D. Stone coffin 1

Rectangular sarcophagus with representation of the myth of Melagrus. On the top, shaped as a bed, a married couple partially lying down (end of 3rd century A.D.) [more...]

Second century A.D. Stone coffin 2

It has been damaged somewhat over the past 1800 or so years, but not as badly as you might expect. [more...]

Tombstone in the floor

An inscription that includes a shield with a heraldic device, possibly a deer’s antlered head.

Second century sarcohpagus 1

Rectangular sarcophagus (end of 2^nd century A.D.) with the myth of Selene and Endimyon among genii and winged gryphons. Gable top with elevation with winged victories holding inscribed board. Reused in 1467 for Gherardo del Canfora. [more...]

Second century sarcophagus 2

A close-up showing the inscription.

Pegasus stone coffin

An ancient Roman sarcophagus, or stone coffin if you will, from the third century, some 1800 years ago. [more...]

Pegasus stone coffin: front view

Showing the partly-open door to the underworld, and the groovy front.

Dead man’s tomb

Rectangular sarcophagus with in the center bust of the deceased in a clipeus (end of 2nd century a.d.) among nereids, marine centaurs and winged genii. [more...]