Date : approx. between 130 and 150
Material : Marble
Acquisition : Purchase by subscription (1890)
Dynastie des Antonins
| Item 92 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Funerary object (Sarcophage)
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.
| More pictures | |
|
