Caption

Sarcophagus with a depiction of a married couple and a shepherd, unknown Roman workshop. A large Roman sarcophagus with strigilla S-shaped grooves on the front forming a central medallion, decorated with a standing, thoughtful shepherd leaning on a shepherd's staff pedum. On the sides of the front are figures presumed to be the deceased, standing against draped fabrics parapetasmata: on the left, a woman in a tunic and long cloak palla holding a scroll volumen in her left hand; on the right, a man in a tunic and toga with a contabulatio specially wrapped hem holding a scroll in his left hand and wearing mullei leather military boots. Both front figures have incompletely finished heads. The side walls show reliefs of a seated griffin with a lion's head; the left wall near its lower left corner has an opening into the interior. The lower left corner of the right wall is missing and the rear wall is rather carelessly worked. The piece shows abrasions and damage, particularly to the corners and figures on both sides of the front wall. Circa 270 CE, Roman Empire. Sarcophagus Roman. Height 100 cm, width 214 cm, depth 100 cm, weight 2400 kg., A close-up view of a textured rectangular stone block with a rough, pitted surface in shades of light gray and off-white, set against a smooth gray background; the stone shows irregular indentations and raised bumps across its face, with slightly darker gray shadows in the crevices and along the beveled edges, and a hint of a darker area near one corner.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26A05_245

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Keywords

Sarcophagus depiction married couple shepherd unknown Roman workshop large Roman sarcophagus strigilla S-shaped grooves front forming central medallion decorated standing thoughtful shepherd leaning shepherd's staff pedum sides front figures presumed deceased draped fabrics parapetasmata left woman tunic long cloak palla holding scroll volumen left hand right man toga contabulatio specially wrapped hem holding scroll wearing mullei leather military boots front figures incompletely finished heads side walls reliefs seated griffin lion's head left wall near lower corner opening interior right wall missing rear wall carelessly worked piece abrasions damage particularly corners figures front wall Circa 270 CE Roman Empire Sarcophagus Roman Height 100 cm width 214 cm depth 100 cm weight 2400 kg close-up view textured rectangular stone block rough pitted surface shades light gray off-white set smooth gray background stone irregular indentations raised bumps across face slightly darker gray shadows crevices beveled edges hint darker area near corner.