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Sarcophagus fragment, Louvre MA 3199. (Photographs by Chuzeville, courtesy of Musée du Louvre, Paris) -
Sarcophagus fragment, Louvre MA 3199, end. (Photographs by Chuzeville, courtesy of Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Sarcophagus Fragment
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 244
- 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