Object Title
Garland Sarcophagus
Measurements
228.6 x 83.8 x 76.2 cm
Creation Date
mid 2nd Century CE
Credit Line
Carlos Collection of Ancient Art
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/6662/garland-sarcophagus?ctx=f0889860ad2bfe0fedac815297893f3b31215a4c&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Ex private collection, Switzerland. With Hesperia Art, London, England, 1992. Ex coll. Mr. M. Kalil a.o., London, England, before 1996. Purchased by MCCM from Christoph Leon, Basel, Switzerland.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, 2000 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - August 2007
The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, September 21, 2007 - January 6, 2008
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 2009 - Present
Publication Information
Apollo (March 1992): Hesperia Art advert.
Helga Herdejurgen, Stadtromische und Italische Girlandensarkophage (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1996), 106, number 44.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2000.
Jasper Gaunt, "New Galleries of Greek and Roman Art at Emory University: The Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva 16 (2005): 13-17.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Purchased by museum in 1999.