Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

McCann, Anna Marguerite
1978
152 pages
189 illustrations
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Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Catalogue of the Marble Sarcophagi

Garland Sarcophagi
1. Western type
2. Eastern type (Proconnesian)

Mythological Sarcophagi
3, 4. Endymion
5. Contest of the Muses and Sirens
6. Eros with a Torch (fragment)
7. Orestes (fragments)
8. Dying Meleager (fragment)
9. Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes (fragment)
10. Herakles (fragment)
11. Mars and Rhea Silvia (fragment)
12. Nereid (?) (fragment)
13. Apollo and Marsyas (fragment)
14. Eros Mounted on a Horse (fragment)

Dionysiac Sarcophagi
15, 16. Indian Triumph of Dionysus (fragments)
17. Triumph of Dionysus and the Seasons

Battle Sarcophagus
18. Battle of Romans and Gauls (fragments)

Portrait Medallion Sarcophagi
19. Flying Amorini Holding Portrait Medallion
20. Female Portrait Medallion (fragment)

Marriage Sarcophagus
21. Dextrarum iunctio (fragment)

Asia Minor Columnar Sarcophagi
22. Poet-Philosopher, Sidamara type (fragment)
23. Child's Season sarcophagus (fragmentary front panel)

Strigil Sarcophagus
24. Physician

Catalogue of the Lead Sarcophagi
25, 26. Columnar type
27. Child's sarcophagus
28. Fragment with bust motif

Appendix: Chronological Table

Met Art in Publication

Limestone sarcophagus, Limestone, Cypriot
ca. 475–450 BCE
Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus, Hard limestone, Cypriot
2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE
Marble anthropoid sarcophagus, Parian marble, Graeco-Phoenician
last quarter of the 5th century BCE
Terracotta canopic urn, Terracotta, Etruscan, Chiusi or environs
6th century BCE
Alabaster cinerary urn, Alabaster, Etruscan
3rd century BCE
Marble funerary altar, Marble, Roman
ca. 14–68 CE
Gli oscuri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitruvio.  Di latino volgare et alla chiara inteligentia tradotti., Giovanni Battista Bertano  Italian, Printed book with woodcut illustrations and engraved frontispiece
Giovanni Battista Bertano
1558
Two marble portrait heads from a relief, Marble, Roman
ca. 13 BCE–5 CE
Marble portrait of a man from a funerary relief, Marble, Roman
late 1st century BCE
Marble portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius, Marble, Roman
ca. 138–161 CE
Marble sarcophagus fragment, Marble, Luni and Pentelic, Roman
mid-2nd century CE
Marble sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens, Marble, Pentelic, Roman
3rd quarter of 3rd century CE
Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Endymion, Marble, Roman
mid-2nd century CE
Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne, Marble, Luni and Pentelic, Roman
ca. 130–150 CE
Marble sarcophagus with garlands, Marble, Proconnesian, Roman
ca. 200–225 CE
Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Selene and Endymion, Marble, Roman
early 3rd century CE
Marble portrait bust of a woman, Marble, Roman
ca. 193–211 CE
Marble sarcophagus fragment: Eros leaning on a reversed torch, Marble-Luni, Roman
mid-2nd century CE
Fragmentary marble sarcophagus with scenes from the Oresteia, Marble-Luni, Roman
mid-2nd century CE
Marble sarcophagus fragment: head and torso of a Gaul, Marble-Luni, Roman
160–180 CE
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