Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

87-103. The Great Mother / 98. Sarcophagi and Symbolism

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Life of Christ / Infancy / Adoration of the Magi / Without attendants / Without Joseph / White Magus
Images of Christ / Sacred monogram (IHS)

Further details

Sarcophagus of the exarch Isaac, front

Artist or creator

Byzantine

Date

5th century

Location

Ravenna, S. Vitale

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Bibliographic Citation

G. Bovini, Sarcofagi Paleocristiani di Ravenna, Vatican City, 1954, p. 49, fig. 36; Marion Lawrence, The Sarcophagi of Ravenna, 1945, fig. 12

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