sarcophagus / Marble

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1981.03.0001
Object Name: sarcophagus
Lot: Associates of the Kelsey Museum and the Cummer Fund
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Sarcophagi
Materials: Marble
Weight: too heavy for lab scale
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Sarcophagus with a Bacchic triumph and revel. Marble.
Subjects: Bacchic procession: Dionysos, Ariadne, Silenus, Centaur, two Satyrs
Verbatim Date: 2nd C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Case 34 - Death and Burial; The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual Modern Muse; Cavafy's World: A Tribute to the Greek Poet Constantine P. Cavafy
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine; Talalay, Lauren
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii : ancient ritual, modern muse
Publication Year: 2000
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1981.03.0001
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1981.03.0001/dscn2129.jpg

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