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Marine Sarcophagus 1 Showing the corner and end, with its “crouching marine gryphon” whatever that might be! [more...] |
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Marine Sarcophagus 2 Showing also the front. [more...] |
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Old words 1 A fragment of an engraving made some six hundred years before the hirja, from around the time of Jesus (a Palestinian Jew). [more...] |
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Old words 2: closeup Showing the carved Roman letters more clearly. |
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Old words 3 The letters are still beautiful after two thousand years but the narrative structure has not survived. |
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Old words 4 A view from further away, to reduce lens distortion. |
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Marine Sarcophagus 3 The bust of the deceased. |
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caption rectangular sarcophagus (mid 3rd century a.d.). on the front shell like clipeus with bust of the deceased - a man - held by two tritons, around it courting of marine gods. on the flanks marine panther and marine gryphon both crouched. [more...] |
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Marine Sarcophagus 4 rectangular sarcophagus (mid 3rd century a.d.). on the front shell like clipeus with bust of the deceased - a man - held by two tritons, around it courting of marine gods. on the flanks marine panther and marine gryphon both crouched. [more...] |
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A Roman child’s last resting-place 1 rectangular sarcophagus for the burial of a child (end of 2nd – beginning of 3rd century a.d.). on the front chariotters [charioteers] racing in the circus; on the flanks winged putti on galloping horses. [more...] |
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A Roman child’s last resting-place 2 A closer view. |
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Bacchic Scene Sarcophagus 1 The naked man is taking away the woman’s veil (they are Roman gods) and on the front the woman is stripping the man, all very decorous and suitable for a sarcophagus. Or possibly not. [more...] |
