Iconography
	GODS & MYTHS
	Venus
	→ Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance → Known prototypes → Statues → Rome, Villa Borghese (Venus or the nymph Amymone, or other Sea Goddess)
	Bacchus
	→ Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance → Known prototypes → Sarcophagi → London, British Museum → Adaptations → Drunken Pan carried by amoretti and a satyr
	Sea deities and animals
	→ Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance → Known prototypes → Sarcophagi → Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. MA 341
	→ Groups of Sea deities and monsters → Sarcophagi → Sarcophagi without a prominent device in the centre
	→ Groups of Sea deities and monsters → Miscellaneous
	Amymone
	→ Single Figure
	→ Neptune and Amymone
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Judith → Judith beheads Holofernes and returns to Bethulia (Judith 13) → Judith with the head of Holofernes (not placing it into a sack)

	Further details
	a notice by Ruth Rubinstein links it with the Nereid Sarcophagus in Verona rather than with the Louvre sarcophagus
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1449-1494) or Sangallo, Giuliano da (c1443-1516) by Dacos attributed to Davide Ghirlandaio
	DATE
	1489
	LOCATION
	Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (inv. 21)

	Notes on photograph
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	N. Dacos, 'Ghirlandaio et l'Antique', Bulletin de l'Institute Belge de Rome, 34, 1962, pp. 448-451

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	RELATIONS
	Census database

	Acknowledgements
	Record created with the generous support of the Dean's Development Fund of the School of Advanced Study, University of London

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