Funerary Monument for Sextus Maelius Stabilio, Vesinia Iucunda, and Sextus Maelius Faustus
Artist
Unknown
Dateearly 1st century
MediumMarble
Dimensions31 1/2 x 58 1/2 x 8 in. (80 x 148.6 x 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number79.1.2
On View
On viewEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 58.
Diana E. E. Kleiner, "Social Status, Marriage and Male Heirs in the Age of Augustus: A Roman Funerary Relief," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 14, no. 4 (1990), 20-28, illus. (b-w) 19, (b-w details) 21, 23.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 29.
Klaus von Fittschen, and Paul Zanker, eds. Beiträge zur Erschliebung hellenistischer und kaiserzeitlicher Skulptur und Architektur, Band 12 and Band 13 (Kockel, Valentin), "Stadtrömische Porträtreliefs der späten Republik und frühen Kaiserzeit," Band 12 (Frühjahr 1993), 168-69, illus. 82 a-c, 83 e.
"Med in Latin: Department of Classical Studies" (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1994-94), illus. center back panel of flyer.
North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1995-96), mentioned 34 (illus. is incorrect, Funerary Stela, G.79.6.13 is the wrong photo accompanying reference.
John Bodel, and Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist (New York: American Academy in Rome, 1997), 141.
Diana E. E. Kleiner and Susan B. Matheson, eds., I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome (exhibition catalogue) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), cat. no. 150, illus. (b-w).
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Funerary Monument for Sextus Maelius Stabilio, Vesinia Iucunda, and Sextus Maelius Faustus, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998) 31, illus. (color).
Valerie Hope and Janet Huskison, A219 Exploring the Classical World: Block 4: Rome - City and People (Milton Keynes, UK: The Open University, 2006), mentioned 42, illus. (b-w), 43, fig. 4.8.
Marc C. Peeters, "Les portraits de couples sur les reliefs funéraires du monde romain et au xxe siècle: les prises, égalité et asymétries," in Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne (32/2 - 2006), illus. (b-w detail) 97, fig. 3.
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Funerary Monument for Sextus Maelius Stabilio, Vesinia Iucunda, and Sextus Maelius Faustus, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 62, illus. (color) 63.
Maura K. Heyn, "Gesture and Identity in the Funerary Art of Palmyra," in American Journal of Archaeology 114 (2010), briefly discussed 634, illus. (b-w) 635.
Mary T. Boatwright, Peoples of the Roman World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 26-27, illus. (b-w) 27, fig. 7.
Sinclair Bell and Teresa Ramsby, eds., Free at Last: The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012), illus. (color) front cover.
Josiah Osgood, Turia: A Roman Woman’s Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), briefly discussed 129–130, illus. (b-w) 129, fig. 19.
Maura K. Heyn, “Western Men, Eastern Women? Dress and Cultural Identity in Roman Palmyra,” in What Shall I Say of Clothes? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches in the Study of Dress in Antiquity, Megan Cifarelli and Laura Gawlinski, eds. (Boston: Archeological Institute of America, 2017), 205–206, illus. 206, fig. 3.
Susan Stewart, Mary Harlow, ed., Cultural History of Hair, Vol. 1: Antiquity, (London, England: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), illus. (color)Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” November 8, 1979-May, 1980.
New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, “I Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome,” September 6-December 1, 1996; San Antonio, TX, San Antonio Museum of Art, January 3-March 9, 1997; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, April 6-June 15, 1997, cat. no. 150, illus. (b-w).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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