Title

Relief on sarcophagus, Roman, c2nd century. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

Relief on sarcophagus, Roman, c2nd century. Front of a Roman sarcophagus, Meleager hunting the boar of Calydon, sent by Diana as punishment for a neglected sacrifice. Dimensions: height: 85 cmwidth: 191 cmdepth: 1.2 cmweight: 393 kg//Oxford, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Date

100th century

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Reference

HRM19E75_001

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

87,8Mb (3,0Mb) / 22,5in x 15,2in / 6738 x 4555 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal Italy people male group man men arts country Rome naked nude sculpture art guy color colour hunting death relief Roman location century burial image studio shot concept killing mythology sacrifice nudity boar nakedness relief carving black background Greek mythology sarcophagi sarcophagus 2nd century Calydonian Boar male likeness Meleager object Unknown marble Callydonian Boar human likeness Ashmolean Museum marble object