ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Cinerary Urn of Gaius Pompeius Ireneus

AAT Object Form/Functionurns

AAT Object Techniquecarving (process)

AAT Object Form/Functionheads (representations)

Place ExcavatedRome, Italy, Europe

CultureRoman

PeriodFlavian

Dateca. 69-96 CE

MediumMarble (Luna [Carrara])

Credit LineGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau

Dimensions11 3/16 x 9 7/16 x 8 1/4 in. (28.4 x 24 x 21 cm)

Object number1997.004.014A/B

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Pemanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - October 1997
The Art of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, November 8, 1997 - January 4, 1998
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, February 1998 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - August 26, 2013
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 25, 2013 - Present
Published ReferencesAntonio Francesco Gori, Inscriptiones antiquae in Etruriae urbibus exstantes, Vol. I (Florence, 1727), 342, number 17.
Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Novus Thesaurus Veterum Inscriptionum, Vol. III (Milan: Mediolani, 1740), 1490, number 9.
Hans Dutschke, Antike Bildwerke in Oberitalien, Vol II: Antike Bildwerke in Florenz (Leipzig, 1875), 221-222, number 474 (17).
Christian Hulsen, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Vol. VI: Inscriptiones Urbis Romae Latinae, part IV, fasc. 1 (Berlin, 1894), 2471, number 24474.
Christiane Kunst, Romische Adoption: zur Strategie einer Familienorganisation (Hennef: M. Clauss, 2005), 262, number 591.

ProvenanceSaid to have been found ca. 1640 near the Porta Capena, Rome, Italy. Ex coll. Carlo Strozzi (1587-1671), Florence, Italy. Thence by descent, until at least 1875. Ex coll. Laurence Witten (1926-1995), Connecticut and Florida, purchased from Julius Carlebach [Carlebach Gallery] (1909-1964), New York, early 1960s. Ex coll. William (1920-2002) and Carol (1921-2019) Thibadeau, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Witten, June 1990.

InscribedUpper center: "DM C POMPEIO || IRENEO H ET || ALVMNVS || FECIT BM"

Status

On view

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