Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Apollo / With other figures / in groups of more than three figures
Bacchus / With other figures / Individuals / In groups of more than three persons
Cybele / With other figures / Attis
Diana / With other figures / in groups of more than three figures
Latona / With other figures / With more than three figures
Marsyas / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known Prototypes / Rome, Villa Doria-Pamphili (sarcophagus)
Mercury / With other figures / in groups of more than three figures
Minerva / With other figures / in groups of more than three figures
Muses / Individual / Euterpe
Muses / Individual / Melpomene

Further details

[Left to right] Melpomene holding Hercules’ club and mask; Cybele, seated, with Attis at her feet and Dionysus behind her; Athena facing Cybele; Marsyas and Apollo, with a Muse between them & a Griffin; Artemis to the right of Apollo; Euterpe with a flute; Leto seated, with Mercury behind her.

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

3rd century

Location

Rome, Villa Doria Pamphili

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Carl Robert, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, Bd 3, Einzelmythen, Part 2, Hippolytos - Meleagros, Berlin 1904, pp. 259-260, no. 207; Anna Marguerite McCann, Roman Sarcophagi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978, pp. 82-83.

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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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