The motif of the final scene is heroic death. The attacking lioness knocks down the hunter from his horse. The falling hunter tries to cover himself with a shield; he is defenceless because his right arm with weapons is blocked by the falling horse. His fellows do their best to help him, but will they manage to?

Death of a civil person at hunt was considered as honorable as death of a military man in a battle. Hunting for a wild beast was а standard metaphor of virtus of the deceased in funerary sculpture. The most dangerous was hunt for a lion or for a wild boar. The latter is much more common in sarcophagi reliefs because the resembling myths of Meleager and Adonis were widely used in funerary art; and besides the natural habitat of the wild boar was the whole Roman Empire that made this choice actual for any region. And vica versa the choice of a lion as an object of hunt grounds the assumption that the deceased lived and possibly died in the Asia Minor or North Africa.