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Sculpture | Rome | Funeral sculpture
101. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Aphrodite and Adonis. Aphrodite comes to wounded Adonis (detail).
Parian marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6734.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
102. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Aphrodite and Adonis. Death of Adonis (detail).
Parian marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6734.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
103. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion.
Parian marble. Mid-2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6758.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
104. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion (detail).
Parian marble. Mid-2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6758.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
105. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion (detail).
Parian marble. Mid-2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6758.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
106. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Scenes of the myth of Medea. Front panel of sarcophagus.
Luna marble. Mid-2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6763.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
107. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Atrium with an inscription in honour of Pliny the Younger.
Milan, Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio.
108. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Eroses and garlands.
White marble.
2nd—3rd cent. CE. Asia Minor.
Inv. No. 204.
Milan, Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
109. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Eroses and garlands.
White marble.
2nd—3rd cent. CE. Asia Minor.
Inv. No. 204.
Milan, Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
110. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lenos shaped sarcophagus with Dionysias scenes (side 1).
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
111. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lenos sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes (side 2).
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
112. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lenos sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes (side 3).
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
113. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lenos sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes (side 4).
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
114. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with Dionysias scenes (end wall).
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
115. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lenos sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes (side 4).
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
116. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sleeping Ariadne on Naxos island. A close-up of side 1 of sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes.
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
117. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Satyr removing a splinter from a Pan’s foot. A close-up of side 1 of sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes.
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
118. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Central part of side 1 of sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes.
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
119. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Central part of side 2 of sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes.
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
120. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with flying Victories holding a portrait medallion of the deceased.
White-yellowish marble. Second quarter of the 3rd century CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 761.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.