CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS RELIEF FRAGMENT
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
20 ¾ in. x 13 3/4 in. (53 cm x 35 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 July 1987, lot 211.
Elsa Bolch-Diener collection, Bern, acquired from the above sale.

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Lot Essay

For another example of a sarcophagus decorated with a scene of a shepherd tending his sheep (on side of the the lid) dated to the Tetrarchic period, circa 300 A.D. now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek inv. no. 2468, cf. J. Stubbe Ostergaard, Imperial Rome, vol. 1, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1996, pp. 112-115.

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