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GODS AND MYTHS

Hercules / Myths / Death and apotheosis / The injured Hercules rampaging, uproading trees and gnawing bones of animals
Hercules / Myths / Death and apotheosis / Hercules on the pyre
Meleager / Myths / Death of Meleager / Meleager dying, alone

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Death / Mourning

Further details

fragment of a sarcophagus, identification of subject-matter uncertain

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

160 - 170

Location

Paris, Musée du Louvre

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Ian Jones (The Warburg Institute) (Photographer (analogue))

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Louvre

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This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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