Plaster Cast of Urn of Cornelia Servanda

Front of a sepulchral chest. A girl, half draped, and wearing an armlet, lies asleep on a bed. Before her is a small three-legged table on which are three vessels. A raven stands near, with a piece of cake (?) in its beak. At each end of the bed, and on a much larger scale, are two portrait busts; that on the right is male; that on the left is quite unfinished, and may have been female, in which case the three figures may be supposed to be the three persons named in the inscription. On the front of the bed is the inscription: Cor(nelia) Onesime. Below, within a moulded panel: Dis Manibus Servius Cornelius Diadumenus Corneliae Servandae coniu(gi) suae caris(simae), vix(it) ann(is) LX, et Corneliae Onesime vern(a)e suae, vixit ann(is) VIIII men(sibus) V die(bus) XXVIII. This is followed by one line erased.

British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities, British Museum. by A.H. Smith. London, the Trustees, 1892-1904. 3v.
v.3, p.350, No. 2363.

British Museum.
List of casts from sculptures, etc. in the Departments of Antiquities sold by Messrs. Brucciani & Co. London, the Trustees, 1905. p.48. (In Source Donor File)

British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities, British Museum. by A.H. Smith. London, the Trustees, 1892-1904. 3v.
v.3, p.350, No. 2363.