Object details
Accession number
S8w9
Primary Creator
Roman
Full title
Rectangular Cinerary Urn
Creation Date
about 27 BCE - 68 CE
Provenance
Made for Quntus Minucius Primigenus and Minucia Successa. Comissioned by their son Quintus Minucius Icarus.
Cinerarium described and inscription transcribed in the 16th century by the Flemish antiquarian Martinus Smetius (about 1525-1578) and in March 1550 by the Swiss scholar Metellus (16th century), at the port of Ostia.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome for about 40 lire on 13 April 1895.
Marks
Inscribed (on central tablet): DIS*MANIB / Q*MINVCIPRIMIGEN / ET*MINVCIAE*SVCCESSAE / CONIVGI*EIVS / Q MINVCIVS ICARVS / PARENTIBVS OPTIMIS (For the Manes [Chthonic deities, like Lares] / To Quintus Minucius Primigenus / and Minucia Successa / his spouse / Quintus Minucius Icarus / to the best of partents)
Dimensions
64.8 x 44.5 x 31.8 cm (25 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 12 1/2 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
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 14, no. 1359. (consult for earlier manuscript citations)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 54. (Roman)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 36-37, no. 49. (Roman, early imperial)
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