Sarcophagus Depicting Castor and Pollux Seizing the Daughters of Leucippus

ca. 160 CE (Imperial)

217.8 cm 111.1 cm 105.4 cm

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Depicted in high relief, the twins Castor and Pollux, known as the Dioscuri ("sons of Zeus"), abducted and later married the daughters of King Leucippus. Here, the brothers seize the maidens amid a scene of confusion. On the ends, the Dioscuri carry off the women in their char...

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[Excavated from the so-called Licinian tomb, via Piave, Rome, 1885]; Clemente Maraini, 1885, by excavation; Don Marcello Massarenti, Rome, by 1894, by purchase [marble no. 3]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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