Object details
Object number
S23w1
Creator(s)
Roman
Title
Section of the Lid of a Sarcophagus
Date
about 300
Medium
Proconessian marble
Dimensions
24 x 148.5 cm (9 7/16 x 58 7/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (central tablet): DM/ETMEMO/RIAE GAI/SALVIDOMI / TI*RVFINI/CP (For the Manes [Chthonic deities, like Lares] and to the memory of / Gaius Salvius Domitius / Rufinus, [our] dear father)
Provenance
Discovered on 24 Feburary 1888 with two other sarcophagi (CIL nos. 31715 and 31769) in the Vigna Colonna, Pompeii on the Appian Way, between the Porta San Sebastiano and the tomb of Caecilia Metella.
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection before 1903.
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
Schimberg. "Sitzungungsprotocolle." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, Romische Abteilung (1888), pp. 96-97.
Edmond Le Blant. "Lettre... (seance du 9 Mars 1888)." Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1888), pp. 111-13.
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 6, no. 31754.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 194. (Roman, 1st century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 48, no. 64. (Roman, about 300 CE)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III. "The Mosaic from Montebello near Rome: An Early Manifestation of the Seasons in Roman Imperial Art." Fenway Court (1981), pp. 23-24, no. 6. (Roman, about 300 CE)
Gallery
Third Floor Stairhall And Stairway
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