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Sculpture | Rome | Funeral sculpture | Sarcophagi | Mythological sarcophagi
41. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Protesilaus and Laodamia.
Marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Naples, Santa Chiara Church.
42. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Protesilaus and Laodamia.
Left side panel.
Marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Naples, Santa Chiara Church.
43. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Protesilaus and Laodamia.
The frontal panel.
Marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Naples, Santa Chiara Church.
44. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Protesilaus and Laodamia. “Laodamia meets Protesilaus”.
The front panel.
Marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Naples, Santa Chiara Church.
45. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Protesilaus and Laodamia.
Right side panel.
Marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Naples, Santa Chiara Church.
46. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Death of Meleager (a piece of a front panel of a sarcophagus).
Marble. Roman, mid-2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 20.187.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
47. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Death of Meleager (a piece of a front panel of a sarcophagus).
Marble. Roman, mid-2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 20.187.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
48. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A lenos-shaped sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion.
Marble. Early 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 47.100.4a, b.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
49. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion. The lid frieze.
Marble.
Early 3rd cent. CE.
CIL XIV 565.
Inv. No. 47.100.4b.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
50. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion. Left end relief.
Marble. Early 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 47.100.4a.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
51. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion. The rear view.
Marble. Early 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 47.100.4a, b.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
52. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lenos shaped sarcophagus with Dionysus on a panther, also known as “Badminton sarcophagus”.
White marble. 260—270 CE.
Inv. No. 55.11.5.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
53. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with representation of griffins.
Marble.
2nd cent. CE.
CIL XIV 5050.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
54. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with representation of marine thiasos and a head of Poseidon.
Marble. 2nd—3rd cent. CE.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
55. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus in the form of a portico with arches and a lid with reclining spouses.
Marble. Second half of the 3rd — first half of the 4th cent. CE.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
56. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus in the form of a portico with arches — the front relief.
Marble. Second half of the 3rd — first half of the 4th cent. CE.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
57. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of lions hunting. Lid of a sarcophagus with hunting Erotes.
Marble. 3-d cent. CE.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
58. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of lions hunting. Lid of a sarcophagus with hunting Erotes.
Marble. 3-d cent. CE.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
59. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Clipeus-sarcophagus of Lucius Caltilius Salutaris depicting the myth about Romulus and Remus.
Marble.
Second half of the 2nd century.
Inv. Nos. 106 / 106 A.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
60. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus strigilato with the Seasons and clipeus portrait of the deceased. Detail.
Marble. 270s CE.
Inv. No. 1163.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.