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621. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus. Rear panel: the hunting for a wild boar.
Marble. Late 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. A 432.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
622. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus (rear panel).
Marble. Late 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. A 432.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
623. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Cinerery urn of Cornelius Eutichius.
Roman work. Carrara marble.
End of the 1st century CE.
Inv. No. A. 437.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
624. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Rome. Marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. A 461.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
625. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Erinys, Electra and Orestes (a close-up of relief “Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra”).
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Rome. Marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. A 461.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
626. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Orestes slaying Aegisthus (a close-up of relief “Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra”).
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Rome. Marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. A 461.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
627. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Orestes slaying Clytemnestra (a close-up of relief “Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra”).
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Rome. Marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. A 461.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
628. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Orestes slaying Clytemnestra (a close-up of relief “Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra”).
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Rome. Marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. A 461.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
629. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The front panel of the sarcophagus with a portal and portrait figures of the decedents.
Coarse-grained light gray marble.
3rd century.
Inv. No. A 889.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
630. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of a sarcophagus with a scene of abduction of Persephone by Hades and side panels with sphinges.
Marble.
150—175 CE.
Inv. No. Гр-3087 (А184).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
631. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus, or a sarcophagus of the spouses).
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
632. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus).
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
633. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — front relief.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
634. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — the central scene of the front relief.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
635. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — the friese of the lid.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
636. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — the right short panel.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
637. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — the left short panel with a pastoral scene.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
638. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — a close-up of the front panel.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
639. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — a close-up of the front panel.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
640. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The Death of the Niobe’s Children.
Relief of a front panel of a sarcophagus.
Marble.
Roman work of the 1st century BCE (?) after a Greek original of the 430s BCE by Phidias.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4223 / А. 434.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.