3320 x 2539 px | 28,1 x 21,5 cm | 11,1 x 8,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
11 juin 2013
Lieu:
Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy
Informations supplémentaires:
Sarcophagus with Calydonian boar hunt, Proconnesian marble. At the center of the scene Maleager hunts the Calydonian boar before Artemis, the goddess of hunting. On the lid, a reclining couple their heads unfinished. The front of the sarcophagus is decorated with figures that take up the entire available field. The scene narrates the myth of Meleager and the hunt for the Calydonian boar, a well-loved theme in the decoration of Imperial period sarcophagi: most likely, the use of this theme aimed at underlining the heroic virtue of the deceased personage. In the main scene, the composition is carefully balanced while the one on the left, a lion hunt, is organized as a group of overlapping figures. On the right, there is a deer hunting scene in connection with the main face. On the lid, there is the depiction of two reclining spouses for which the sarcophagus was commissioned. The woman is holding a lute-like musical instrument. The figures were made in an ordinary workshop and the heads are not finished. The craftsmanship of the lid is inferior in quality to that of the body of the sarcophagus. The work dates to the first half of the 3rd century AD/CE (201-250 AD/CE). It was found in Via Valeria, in the section that goes from Tivoli to Vicovaro.
