Description
This sheathed sword was part of a Roman imperial monument that included a gilded bronze equestrian statue. The gilded bronze horse head nearby may have come from the same monument.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
1/16/1974
Treatment
cleaned; coated
5/17/1984
Treatment
mounted
5/18/1984
Treatment
cleaned; mounted; repaired; other
9/20/1994
Treatment
other
7/21/1995
Examination
other
7/21/1995
Treatment
other
Exhibitions
Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947.
Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa. 1996.
Provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
