The Morgan Library and Museum (originally the Pierpont Morgan Library), a public museum and research library in midtown Manhattan, was built in 1906 as the private library of banker and financier John Pierpont Morgan. After his death the library was made a public institution by his son in 1924 in accordance with Morgan’s will. Renamed the Morgan Library and Museum in 2006 following a major expansion, the institution currently houses more than 350,000 objects, mostly European manuscripts, printed books, drawings, music sheets, maps, paintings, and photographs but including also more than 800 Greek and Coptic papyri, a large collection of Mesopotamian seals, and a few Greco-Roman antiquities, including a pair of silver cups from the Roman villa at Boscoreale buried by Vesuvius and, exposed in an open air courtyard, an opisthographic Roman funerary altar bearing two epitaphs of the second century CE.
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NY.NY.MLM.G.AZ050.1-2
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NY.NY.MLM.L.Tmp22.03.01
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epitaphs of Annia Secunda and Lollia Staphyle