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Historical Archive: Menorah Sarcophagus

fragmentary seasons sarcophagus from the Athanasius Kirchner collection, Rome
mid-third to mid-fourth century CE
marble, 126 x 70 cm (49.6 x 27.6 inches)
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano 67611


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full 		Click to enlarge.
full, oblique view 		Click to enlarge.
with person for scale 		Click to enlarge.
left Victory holding clipeus 		Click to enlarge.
menorah with Victory
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menorah, putti trampling grapes 		Click to enlarge.
menorah, oblique view showing lamp flames on edge clipeus 		Click to enlarge.
menorah, Victory, Autumn 		Click to enlarge.
putti trampling grapes with flanking Victories 		Click to enlarge.
overturned basket; putti treading grapes in vat with lion-head spouts
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Victory 		Click to enlarge.
putto riding hare 		Click to enlarge.
Autumn with fruit basket and fowl; on right fragmentary Winter with boar(?) 		Click to enlarge.
Autumn with wild fowl 		Click to enlarge.
putto riding dog
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back: Italian inscription for Francisco de Bello, Milanese merchant 		Click to enlarge.
back, foot end