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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina, lid. Butler photo (Howard Crosby Butler Archive, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina, lid. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Archive, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)
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    Excavations, Roman tomb excavated in the plain. Findspot of sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Archive, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)
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    Excavations, Roman tomb excavated in the plain. Findspot of sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Archive, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)
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    Excavations, Roman tomb excavated in the plain. Findspot of sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina, detail of cornice. Butler photo. (Howard Crosby Butler Archive, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: overview from front left. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: overview from front left. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: overview from front right. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: overview from back left. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: figure on lid: daughter of Claudia Antonia Sabina? (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: figures on lid. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: Eros figure and dog at foot of couch on lid. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: Eros figure at head of couch on lid. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: front view of chest of sarcophagus. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: front view of chest of sarcophagus. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: front view of chest and lid of sarcophagus. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: front view of chest and lid of sarcophagus. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: left side of chest. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: front of chest: right two figures. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: right-hand figure on front of chest. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: head of right-hand figure on front of chest. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: head of right-hand figure on front of chest. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: right side of chest. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: two figures on right side of chest. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: man on right side of chest. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: detail of front right corner (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina: overview of back. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina

Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975 (1978) Cat. 243
Date
2nd or early 3rd C. AD, Roman
Museum
Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, 4027
Museum Inventory No.
4027
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
IAM 4027
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Sculpture, Sarcophagus
Sculpture Type
Sarcophagus
Inscription Text
ΚΛ·ΑΝΤ·ΣΑΒΕΙΝΗΣ ΥΠΑΤΙΚΗΣ
Κλ(αυδίας) Ἀντ(ωνίας) Σαβείνης ὑπατικῆς
Inscription Translation
(the tomb of) Claudia Antonia Sabina, a lady of consular rank
Inscription Comment
Site
Sardis
Findspot
Found in fragments near its mausoleum just W of Pactolus and S of Izmir-Salihli highway (Fig. 1 No. 32.1).
Description
For full description and discussion, see Sardis V, 3ff.; Mansel, Erwerbungsbericht, 176, fig. 6; Ferrari, Commercio Sarcofagi, 39; Lawrence, Additional Sarcophagi, 116ff.; Wiegartz, Säulensarkophage, 158 (Istanbul G) and further bibliography therein. Although the sarcophagus might have been made slightly earlier, the portrait heads must be dated after A.D. 211-212 since Claudia Antonia Sabina is mentioned as a donor in the dedicatory inscription of the Marble Court in the Gymnasium, which must be dated to that year.
Condition
Local marble. Sarcophagus and lid largely preserved. Missing are four figures from the front and sides; the heads of the two putti bearing fruit baskets on the lid; and several faces, both of aedicula figures and of one of the chief ladies on the lid. Other small areas chipped or missing.

Dimensions
H. 2.11; W. 2.32; D. 1.116.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Sardis V. For the Marble Court inscription: BASOR162, 42; Petzl, M14 no. 419.
Author
NHR

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