Sarcophagus with Victories

ca. 210 CE (Roman Imperial)

224.8 cm 115.6 cm 94.6 cm

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The scene on the front of this sarcophagus, carved in high relief, shows two figures of Victory holding standards and flanking a large shield decorated with a Gorgon's head. As is typical in Roman illustrations of triumphs, figures representing vanquished barbarian prisoners a...

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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. 4]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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