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Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus





Artist : Anonymous


Date : approx. between 130 and 150

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Purchase by subscription (1890)
Item 92 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Funerary object

Vitrine : V08

Area related
Capranica (Italy)

Description   

The piece belongs to a relative early category. On the front, three episodes from the story of Theseus and Ariadne. Read from left to right, the scenes are : Ariadne giving a thread to Theseus before he enters the Labyrinth - Theseus slaying the Minotaur - The sleeping Ariadne being abandoned by Theseus on Naxos, where she will be awaked by the god Dionysos.
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