Plate: The Justice of Trajan,with unidentified coat-of-arms
Object Name
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1530-1535
Medium
tin-glazed earthenware
Credit Line
The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Object Number
AGOID.29318
Location
AGO, Gallery 114 Thomson European, Central Case
Gallery Number
AGO, Gallery 114
Dimensions
Overall: 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
Outside: 47.3 cm (18 5/8 in.)
Outside: 47.3 cm (18 5/8 in.)
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Inscribed: Si come il figliolo di Traiano correndo/un'cavallo à caso uccise il gifliulo della/ una vedova, la quale al detto Traiano/ mostrando il figlio morto esso sententio che/ il proprio figlio servise la detta vedova in / vecce dil suo [When the son of Trajan, racing on his horse, by chance killed the son of a widow, she showed Trajan the dead boy, and he judged that his own son should serve for the widow in place of her own]