Iconography
Further details
From left to right: Aura holding the horses in check; Tellus (Gaia, Mother Earth) lying on the ground; to the right of the horses, Selene graciously dismounting the horses; by her feet, [damaged in this sarcophagus] personification of Mt Latmos; Hypnos standing, pouring sleep to sleeping Endymion.
Artist or creator
Date
3rd century (second quarter)
Location
Associated persons
Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Hellmut Sichtermann, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, 2: Apollon - Grazien (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12,2), Berlin 1992, p. 130, no. 76; Carl Robert, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs. Bd. 3, Einzelmythen, part 1, Actaeon - Hercules, Berlin 1897, pp. 100-101, no. 80i; Dagmar Grassinger, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 2 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 2), Berlin 1992, p. 130, no. 76.
Rights and Permissions
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’
Contact
For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk
IIIF manifest for this object