Object details
Object number
SG8e7
Creator(s)
Roman
Title
Cinerary Urn
Date
117 - 138
Medium
Luna marble
Dimensions
22.9 x 35.6 cm (9 x 14 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (central tablet): D*M [damage] VALERIO / CROCO*SATRIA / EVCARPIA*CON / IVGI*SVO*B*M*F (To the Manes [Chthonic deities, like Lares] / To Valerius Crocus / Satria Eucarpia / his wife made [this] / in loving memory)
Provenance
Commissioned by a certain Satria Eucarpia for her husband Valerius Crocus in the 2nd century CE.
Documented in the studio of an architect named Carmini (or Carminium) on the via di San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome in 1881. Another cinerarium in the Gardner collection (museum no. S8w8) was also documented in this location at this time.
Possibly purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome on 13 April 1895.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI, no. 27975.
Friedrich Matz et al. Antike Bildwerke in Rom mit Ausschluss der grösseren Sammlungen vol. 3 (Lepizig, 1881), p. 207, no. 3970.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 40, no. 54. (as Roman, Hadrianic period, 117-138 CE)
Gallery
Outside
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