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    Sarcophagus fragment, Louvre MA 3199. (Photographs by Chuzeville, courtesy of Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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    Sarcophagus fragment, Louvre MA 3199, end. (Photographs by Chuzeville, courtesy of Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Sarcophagus Fragment

Date
Ca. 170-180 AD , Roman
Museum
Paris, Louvre, MA 3198
Museum Inventory No.
MA 3198
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Louvre MA3199
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Sculpture, Sarcophagus
Sculpture Type
Sarcophagus
Site
Sardis?
Findspot
Allegedly from Sardis; given to the museum by P. Gaudin, 1901.
Description
The corner fragment comprises "the cornice of the left intercolumniation of a lateral face, and the left extremity of the adjacent raking cornice" (Sardis V, 39). The interior border is raised to hold the lid. The acroteria consist of a headless animal couchant, "extended in return upon the long side; putto playing with panther (?)" (ibid.). A break resembling a human head to I. is in the comer niche of the short side.
Condition

Crystalline marble.

Corner fragment broken on both sides and bottom; both acroteria damaged.

Dimensions
L. 0.515; W. 0.27; P.H. 0.27.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Published: Charbonneaux, Sculpture grecque romaine, 252f.; Wiegartz, Säulensarkophage, 66, "Louvre C" (wrongly numbered 3199). See Sardis V, 39, fig. 60, with earlier references. Data courtesy of F. Baratte.
Author
NHR