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Historical Archive: Painted Sarcophagus

limestone, interior painting on pale pink plaster
81 x 215 cm (32 x 84.6 inches)
late first//early second century CE
from Crimea, environs of Kerch/Kertch (Panticapaeum necropolis)
Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum П.1899-81


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full sarcophagus with lid 		Click to enlarge.
with people on side
for scale 		Click to enlarge.
with people at end
for scale 		Click to enlarge.
lid with sarcophagus 		Click to enlarge.
lid: birds in foliage
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lady with child and
servants, horsemen,
musicians 		Click to enlarge.
table with vessels,
dancing grotesques,
with krotala? (clappers) 		Click to enlarge.
dancer and painter sides 		Click to enlarge.
dancer and painter
sides corner 		Click to enlarge.
youth with horse
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youth with bowcase,
painter 		Click to enlarge.
painter side, and
mortuary swag 		Click to enlarge.
painter in studio 		Click to enlarge.
painter heating encaustic
tool over small brazier,
divided paint box or
panel with hinged wings,
easel with panel, and
framed images 		Click to enlarge.
mortuary banquet
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lady and servant 		Click to enlarge.
man reclining on couch 		Click to enlarge.
backs of sarcophagus
and lid