Cinerary Urn
sculptor
Unknown
Date117 - 138
Place MadeRome, Ancient & Byzantine World-Europe
MediumLuna marble
Dimensions22.9 x 35.6 cm (9 x 14 in.)
ClassificationsFunerary Containers
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberSG8e7
eMuseum ID721779
EmbARK ObjectID13511
Previous NumberSG-8e7
Previous NumberSGs16
TMS Source ID2435
Last Updated12/20/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella 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.
BibliographyNotesCorpus 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)
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)
MarksNotesInscribed (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)
ProvenanceNotesCommissioned 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.
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.
