ECL-Bn.15:219-2014
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.15:219-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Sistra
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
In the centre is shown the sistrum with a recumbent animal as decoration at the top. A detail is given on right of the motif decorating the side above the handle; two leaves within a crescent moon rising behind a globe. At top left and right of the sheet are coats of arms (Barberini). Comparative evidence for the sistrum is illustrated on left and right of the main piece. On left, two coins, one DEO SARAPIDI, the other a coin of Hadrian showing Egypt, and a relief In Aedibus Delphinorum showing a sistrum and a vase flanking the following inscription:
DIS MANIBUS/ C LARINATIS ATTICI/ QUOD SI QUIS OSSA/ EIUS PREIECERIT AUT/ HANC ARAM APSTULERIT/ HABEBIT SACRA ISIDIS/ ILLIUS QUIETA IRATA.
On right, two coins, one DEO SARAPIDI, the other of Aelius Aurelius, and a relief In Aedibus Matheiorum showing four figures in an Isiac procession.
Inscribed across the top: EFFIGIES SISTRI AEGYPTII/ QUOD SERVATUR IN MUSAEO GUALDI ARIMIN. EQ. S. STEPHANI E FAMILIA URBANI VIII PONT. MAX/ A HIERONYMO ALEZNDRO EXPLICATA.
The lower half of the sheet is filled with text explaining the nature and purpose of the sistrum, mainly from literary evidence. The first sentence concerns the principal sistrum directly: Sistrum e ruinis Urbis nuper erutum, cuius typum hic damus figura ad amussim, & magnitudine servata, aeeum est,/ viridique aerugine obductum.
DIS MANIBUS/ C LARINATIS ATTICI/ QUOD SI QUIS OSSA/ EIUS PREIECERIT AUT/ HANC ARAM APSTULERIT/ HABEBIT SACRA ISIDIS/ ILLIUS QUIETA IRATA.
On right, two coins, one DEO SARAPIDI, the other of Aelius Aurelius, and a relief In Aedibus Matheiorum showing four figures in an Isiac procession.
Inscribed across the top: EFFIGIES SISTRI AEGYPTII/ QUOD SERVATUR IN MUSAEO GUALDI ARIMIN. EQ. S. STEPHANI E FAMILIA URBANI VIII PONT. MAX/ A HIERONYMO ALEZNDRO EXPLICATA.
The lower half of the sheet is filled with text explaining the nature and purpose of the sistrum, mainly from literary evidence. The first sentence concerns the principal sistrum directly: Sistrum e ruinis Urbis nuper erutum, cuius typum hic damus figura ad amussim, & magnitudine servata, aeeum est,/ viridique aerugine obductum.
Content (object)
sistrum
Dimensions
height (actual size): 461mm
width (actual size): 271mm
width (actual size): 271mm
Inscription
See Description:
On left, two coins, one DEO SARAPIDI, the other a coin of Hadrian showing Egypt, and a relief In Aedibus Delphinorum showing a sistrum and a vase flanking the following inscription:
DIS MANIBUS/ C LARINATIS ATTICI/ QUOD SI QUIS OSSA/ EIUS PREIECERIT AUT/ HANC ARAM APSTULERIT/ HABEBIT SACRA ISIDIS/ ILLIUS QUIETA IRATA.
On right, two coins, one DEO SARAPIDI, the other of Aelius Aurelius, and a relief In Aedibus Matheiorum showing four figures in an Isiac procession.
Inscribed across the top: EFFIGIES SISTRI AEGYPTII/ QUOD SERVATUR IN MUSAEO GUALDI ARIMIN. EQ. S. STEPHANI E FAMILIA URBANI VIII PONT. MAX/ A HIERONYMO ALEZNDRO EXPLICATA.
The lower half of the sheet is filled with text explaining the nature and purpose of the sistrum, mainly from literary evidence. The first sentence concerns the principal sistrum directly: Sistrum e ruinis Urbis nuper erutum, cuius typum hic damus figura ad amussim, & magnitudine servata, aeeum est,/ viridique aerugine obductum.
On left, two coins, one DEO SARAPIDI, the other a coin of Hadrian showing Egypt, and a relief In Aedibus Delphinorum showing a sistrum and a vase flanking the following inscription:
DIS MANIBUS/ C LARINATIS ATTICI/ QUOD SI QUIS OSSA/ EIUS PREIECERIT AUT/ HANC ARAM APSTULERIT/ HABEBIT SACRA ISIDIS/ ILLIUS QUIETA IRATA.
On right, two coins, one DEO SARAPIDI, the other of Aelius Aurelius, and a relief In Aedibus Matheiorum showing four figures in an Isiac procession.
Inscribed across the top: EFFIGIES SISTRI AEGYPTII/ QUOD SERVATUR IN MUSAEO GUALDI ARIMIN. EQ. S. STEPHANI E FAMILIA URBANI VIII PONT. MAX/ A HIERONYMO ALEZNDRO EXPLICATA.
The lower half of the sheet is filled with text explaining the nature and purpose of the sistrum, mainly from literary evidence. The first sentence concerns the principal sistrum directly: Sistrum e ruinis Urbis nuper erutum, cuius typum hic damus figura ad amussim, & magnitudine servata, aeeum est,/ viridique aerugine obductum.
Inscription description
Written in ink on the back: 219
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Engraver)
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Fuhrer (no. 491 Now in Vatican)