Campo Santo Teutonico, Museum of

CAMPO SANTO TEUTONICO, MUSEUM of. - Begun as early as 1887 by Mons. A. De Waal (d. 1917), rector of the college (v. Campo Santo). The two principal collections consist of mostly fragmentary Christian sarcophagi and pagan and Christian inscriptions, some of the latter coming from the nearby Vatican basilica. The acquisitions were often described in the periodical likewise founded in 1887 by A. De Waal (v. RÖMISCHE QUARTALSCHRIFT); collectively by him in the Katalog der Sammlung altchristlicher Skulpturen und Inschriften im deutschen National-Hospiz vom Campo Santo. Archäologie des Ehrengabe der Römischen Quartalschrift zu de Rossi's LXX. Geburtstag (Rome 1982, constituting the VI Supplementheft der Römischen Quartalschrift). An illustration of the sarcophagi was subsequently provided by J. Wittig, Die altchristlichen Skulpturen im Museum der deutschen Nationalstiftung am Campo Santo in Rom (there, 1906). The individual subjects were then examined by G. Wilpert in his corpus of Sarcofagi cristiani (1929–36). The small collection of gilt glasses was published by M. Armellini, I vetri dorati della collezione di Campo Santo, in Römische Quartalschrift, 6 (1892), pp. 52–57 and pls. II–III. The bronze and terracotta lamps were illustrated, according to their dates of acquisition, in the same periodical. Enrico Josi