Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Marsyas / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known Prototypes / Rome, Villa Doria-Pamphili (sarcophagus)

Further details

The slaying of Marsyas: The reclined youth grasping the right knee of Marsyas is perhaps a local Phrygian god (Carl Robert), possibly the river Marsyas. To the right of Marsyas, a Scythian with a knelt blade-sharpener assisting him. The figure on the right end is a river god or River 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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