Relief of a Herdsman

2nd-3rd century CE (Roman Imperial)

55.6 cm 52.1 cm 9.1 cm

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This relief decorated the short end of a sarcophagus (stone coffin). It shows a herdsman accompanied by his dog, a sheep, and a goat. The long side of the sarcophagus, now lost, would have depicted the Greek myth of Endymion, a handsome shepherd with whom the moon-goddess Sele...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [marble no. 63], by 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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