Object details
Accession number
S8e15
Primary Creator
Roman
Full title
Rectangular Cinerary Urn
Creation Date
mid 1st century CE - 81 CE
Provenance
Collection of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Orsini (1450-1503), Monte Giordano Palace, Rome.
Collection of the Dorides family, 3 Piazza Trinita de Monti, Rome by 3 March 1892.
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by about 1900.
Marks
Inscribed (central tablet): VALERIAE*PORPHYRIDI / VIX*ANN*XVIII / VALERIVS*PHILIPPVS / PATRONVS" (To Valeria Porphyris / who lived eighteen years, / Valerius Philippus, / her patron)
Dimensions
18.4 x 30.5 x 23.5 cm (7 1/4 x 12 x 9 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Pentelic marble
Web 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Chinese Loggia
Bibliography
Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma (Rome, 1892), p. 300, no. 16.
Corpus Inscriptorum Latinarum 6, no. 34182. (CIL number sometimes given as "28247" or "no. 28247 = no. 34182"; consult for earlier manuscript sources)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 38, no. 50. (Roman, late Julio-Claudian or early Flavian period)
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