Iconography
	GODS & MYTHS
	Apollo
	→ Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance → Known prototypes → Sarcophagi → Rome, Villa Borghese (Apollo and the Muses)
	Muses
	→ Individual → Melpomene
	→ Individual → Terpsichore
	→ Individual → Thalia
	→ Individual → Calliope
	→ With other figures → Apollo → Series of single figures
	→ Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance → Known prototypes → Sarcophagi → Rome, Villa Borghese and Paris, Louvre (Wegner 76 and 206)

	Further details
	Belongs to the same sarcophagus as the fragments MA 1497 and MA 1500 in the Louvre; [Left to Right] Calliope with a scroll of epic poetry, Terpsichore with a double flute, Apollo playing cithara, Thalia with a mask of Silenus, Melpomene with a tragic mask
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Ancient Roman
	DATE
	220 - 230
	LOCATION
	Rome, Villa Borghese

	Notes on photograph
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	Max Wegner, Die Musensarkophage (Die Antiken Sarkophagreliefs, 5, 3), Berlin 1966, p. 78f., no. 206, pl. 17; Paolo Moreno and Chiara Stefani, The Borghese Gallery, Touring Editore 2000, p. 69

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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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