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Endymion / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known Prototypes / Rome, Musei Capitolini
Endymion / Diana and Endymion / Diana at a distance

Further details

[Right to left] Endymion reclined; Hypnos standing by him; Selene walking towards him; [centre] Aura[?]; [Far left] Selene departing; Perhaps Tellus rising from the ground. Top panel [left to right] Fortuna & Iustitia & [...]; Fata[?]; Cerberus, Hades & Persephone, Thanatos or Hypnos; Hermes/Mercury

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

210 (circa) - 220 date controversial

Location

Rome, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo (inv. 725)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Carl Robert, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs. Bd. 3, Einzelmythen, part 1, Actaeon - Hercules, Berlin 1897, pp. 76-78., no. 61; Dagmar Grassinger, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 2 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 2), Berlin 1992, pp. 114-115., no. 51

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Acknowledgements

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

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