CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

This sarcophagus fragment would likely have formed part of a panel depicting the love story of the shepherd Endymion and the Moon goddess Selene, a myth appropriate for Roman funerary art and one found on a number of extant sarcophagi, cf. no.3 in A. M. McCann, Roman Sarcophagi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978. The fragment depicts Aura, the winged and booted personification of Breeze, holding two horses of Selene's chariot.