Carved Marble Fragment with Chariot & 3 figures

Sculpture

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Hammond Castle Museum

Name/Title

Carved Marble Fragment with Chariot & 3 figures

Entry/Object ID

HM-319

Description

Sarcophagus fragment with goat cart and 2 children, larger child portrait with bird in round frame (possible deceased portrait) . Late third century A.D. Marble, large grain, dark yellowish-brown hue, Greek 32.5 cm long x 25.2 cm high; 14.8 max. dia. of tondo; 2.5 max. depth of relief (goat heads) Condition The center of the front of the chest (the tondo) and some of the left side (the goat-cart scene) are preserved. The surface has been badly weathered. Provenance In a shipping document of July 1929, Armando Pacifici recorded two sets of reliefs that he sold to Hammond, Jr. He noted that they came from Siniscalchib and Dolcetti, both in March 1927. The goat-cart relief was part of this shipment. Description The upper part of a child is portrayed in a tondo resting on a short pedestal. He holds in his right hand a dove (?) which faces right. His head is turned slightly in that direction but his features have been left uncarved. There are no traces of clothes. The boy is shown in a two-wheel cart drawn by two goats to our left. He holds the reins in his left hand and a whip in his right. His mother or an attendant, behind the goats in the background, faces him. A pillar on the far left originally supported a sundial or served as a milestone with a sphere on top. A person’s right foot facing forward appears on the far right below the tondo. Unpublished R. Cohon, October 8, 2023

Artwork Details

Medium

Marble

Collection

Sculpture

Acquisition

Accession

319

Made/Created

Place

Location

Roman

Notes

Date: late 3rd century Early Date: 280 Late Date: 299

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Relief

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Sculpture

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

General Notes

Note Type

1966 Corinne Witham Guidebook (28)

Note Type

1966 Corinne Witham Guidebook (30)

Note Type

HM319 - Cohon goat cart relief info (Gloucester-HM-319 Gen-Sarc-Child-Wagon) 8-7-24

Note Type

1930-08-18 from Pacifici (Stein, Piraino, window, balcony & chariot relief) p(1-2)