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Sarcophagus

CultureRoman
Date150-180 C.E.
MediumCarrara marble
DimensionsOverall: 21 1/2 × 85 × 23 1/2 inches (54.61 × 215.9 × 59.69 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-38
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 104
Collections
Provenance

With Ugo Simonetti, by August 21, 1929 [1];

 

Purchased from Simonetti by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. H113, August 21, 1929-July 27, 1932;

 

With Brummer Gallery, on joint account with Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York, July 27, 1932-February 16, 1933 [2];

 

Purchased from Brummer Gallery and Hirsch, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Greek and Roman marbles and stones, object inventory card no. H113.

 

[2] Brummer Gallery sold a half share interest in the object to Hirsch on July 27, 1932.

Published References

Paolo Arias, “Einige Bedeutsame Antiken in Amerika,” Pantheon 12 (July-December 1933): 90, 367.

 

Nikolaus Himmelmann-Wildschütz and Hagen Biesantz, eds., Festschrift für Friedrich Matz (Mainz: von Zabern, 1962), 103, plate 29.1.

 

Max Wegner, Die Musensarkophage (Berlin: Mann, 1966), 19-20, 107, 123, plate 150a.

 

Clementina Panella, “Iconografia delle muse sui sarcophagi romani,” Studi Miscellanei 12 (1966-1967): 19-20, 23, 25, 27, 31-32, 35-36.

 

Hans Gabelmann, review of Die Musensarkophage, by Max Wegner, Bonner Jahrbücher 168 (1968): 540.

 

Marion Lawrence, review of Die Musensarkophage, by Max Wegner, American Journal of Archaeology 72, no. 4 (1968): 406 

 

Clementina Panella, “Osservazioni al corpus dei sarcophagi con muse di Max Wegner,” Archeologia Classica 20 (1968): 328.

 

Klaus Fittschen, review of Die Musensarkophage, by Max Wegner, Gnomon 44 (1972): 489.

 

Mario Moretti, ed., Nuove scoperte e acquisizioni nell’ Etruria Meridonale (Rome: Editrice “Artistica” di A. Nardini, 1975), 263.

 

Margarete Bieber, Ancient Copies: Contributions to the History of Greek and Roman Art (New York: New York University, 1977), 249.

 

Lucia Paduano Faedo, “I sarcophagi romani con muse,” in Principat 12.2. Künste, ed. Hildegard Temporini, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung 2, ed. Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1981), 77n33, 118n149, 152-53. 

 

Huberta Heres, “Ein verschollener Musensarkophag,” Forschungen und Berichte 22 (1982): 187, 190

 

Guntram Koch, Hellmut Sichtermann, and Friedrike Sinn-Henninger, Römische Sarkophage: Handbuch der Archäologie (Munich: C. H. Beck’sche, 1982), 198 (Koch)

 

Guntram Koch and Karol Wight, Roman Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988), 16.

 

Guntram Koch, “Einige Fragmente Figurengeschmückter Sarkophage,” Archäologischer Anzeiger, heft 3 (1993): 425-426.

 

Lucia Faedo, “Mousa, Mousae/Musae,” in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. 7, pt. 1 (Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1994), 1045, 1052, 1054-56, 1058-59.

 

Guntram Koch, ed., Akten des Symposiums “125 Jahre Sarkophag-Corpus”: Marburg, 4.-7. Oktober 1995 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1998), 40n9.

 

Björn Christian Ewald, Der Philosoph als Leitbild: Ikonographische Untersuchungen an römischen Sarkophagreliefs (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1999), 30n137, 32n150, 136, 147, 208, 224, plate 96.1-4.

 

Robert Cohon, “Roman Metrics and Roman Sarcophagi,” in Römische Sarkophage: Akten des Internationalen Werkstattgespräch, 11.-13. Oktober 2012 (Graz), ed. Barbara Porod and Gabriele Koiner (Graz: Uni Graz, 2015), 75, 80, 82, fig. 5.

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