1925.30.121: Weight or Finial

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.30.121

Title

Weight or Finial

Classification

Unidentified

Work Type

unidentified item

Date

mid 1st Millennium BCE

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/292356

Location

Location

Level 3, Room 3400, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Greece in Black and Orange

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Lead

Dimensions

3.3 × 3.5 cm (1 5/16 × 1 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston, MA (by 1925), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.30.121

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Descriptions

Description

Convex lead object of unknown purpose (perhaps a weight or a finial of a staff), with a perforation of circular section (1.5 cm diameter) in its vertical axis.

Commentary

This is quite likely the "capocchia di piombo, servita forse per pomo di bastone" from the tomb at Poggio Sommavilla, Italy, whose contents Joseph Clark Hoppin acquired in Rome in 1897.

See:
A. Pasqui, “X. Poggio Sommavilla,” Notizie degli scavi di antichità comunicate alla R. Accademia dei Lincei (Rome: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1896), 488, no. 4.
Paola Santoro, ed., Civiltà arcaica dei Sabini nella valle del Tevere, III: Rilettura critica della necropoli di Poggia Sommavilla (Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 1977), 87, fig. 25.

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 3400 Greek, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/2023 - 01/01/2050

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