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DEACESSIONED September 21, 2006
Triangular Support for a Candelabrum Shaft, Decorative Colonette, or Small Basin
Roman
Early Roman Imperial Period
possibly A.D. 20–60
Medium/Technique
Marble from Carrara in northwest Italy
Dimensions
41 cm (16 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Emily T. Vermeule and Cornelius C. Vermeule III in the name of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule
Accession Number1992.310
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), no. 039.
DescriptionCondition: The monument has been mutilated on top and bottom, with a scrape running diagonally through Hermes and additional chipping. What remains is fresh, retaining the original delicacy of carving.
Corners decorated with an astragal. Each side has recessed panel framed by a plain cymation on the upper three sides.
Side A: Hermes with wings at his ankles, wearing a chlaina and a wreath with fluttering ribbon, walks in front of a pillar. Side B: Dionysos wearing a long sleeve tunic, nebris and mantle carries a thyrsos and drinking horn. Side C: Artemis wearing a peplos, belted chiton with long overfold, and a quiver, carries two bows and a torch.
Scientific Analysis:
Isotope ratios - delta13C +1.879 / delta18O -1.729, Attribution - Carrara, Justification (Petrographic Analysis) - maximum grain size (0.6 mm), Mg present.
Corners decorated with an astragal. Each side has recessed panel framed by a plain cymation on the upper three sides.
Side A: Hermes with wings at his ankles, wearing a chlaina and a wreath with fluttering ribbon, walks in front of a pillar. Side B: Dionysos wearing a long sleeve tunic, nebris and mantle carries a thyrsos and drinking horn. Side C: Artemis wearing a peplos, belted chiton with long overfold, and a quiver, carries two bows and a torch.
Scientific Analysis:
Isotope ratios - delta13C +1.879 / delta18O -1.729, Attribution - Carrara, Justification (Petrographic Analysis) - maximum grain size (0.6 mm), Mg present.
Provenance1980, Cornelius C. Vermeule, III, Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 1992, gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule, III and Emily T. Vermeule to the MFA [see note 2]; September 21, 2006, deaccessioned by the MFA for transfer to the Republic of Italy.
NOTES:
[1] Lent to the MFA as 213.1980. [2] MFA accession date: June 24, 1992.
For further information, please see: http://www.mfa.org/collections/provenance/antiquities-and-cultural-property/italian-ministry-of-culture-agreement
NOTES:
[1] Lent to the MFA as 213.1980. [2] MFA accession date: June 24, 1992.
For further information, please see: http://www.mfa.org/collections/provenance/antiquities-and-cultural-property/italian-ministry-of-culture-agreement