Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Marsyas / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known Prototypes / Rome, Villa Doria-Pamphili (sarcophagus)
Minerva / With other figures / in groups of more than three figures
Nymphs / With other figures / Athena

Further details

Athena/Minerva holding her flutes, with a nymph at her feet. According to Carl Robert the man on the right is Olympus, the student of Marsyas.

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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