Votive Altar to Terra Mater

Description This inscription records a vow to Terra Mater (Earth Mother) made by Aurelia Flavia Iuliana. On the right side is a relief depiction of a patera (offering dish), and on the left a vase. The back is cut off, and the base and top are unfinished.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/26/1961	Treatment	cleaned
7/20/1970	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1971-1972.

Provenance First recorded by Joseph Marie de Suarès in 1662 near the church of S. Cesario, Rome; Villa Carpegna, Rome, by 1699; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 53 (?)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Inscription] DEAE. SANCTIS./SIMAE . TER/RAE . MATRI . / AVRELIA. FLA/VIA IVLIA.NA / C. F . VOTVM / SOLVIT. [CIL VI 771]

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902