Fragment of a sarcophagus

Additional
Additional

Fragment of a sarcophagus

Roman, circa AD 180
Marble
H.: 86.5 cm. - W.: 37 cm. - D.: 15.5 cm.

Provenance:

Former collection of Giulio Monteverde (1837-1917), Rome, before 1882.
Then in the private collection of Nils Ebbessøn Astrup (1901-1972), Oslo, acquired in the 1950s or 1960s on the advice of Hans Peter L'Orange (1903-1983), founder and director of the Norwegian Institute in Rome.
Then Norwegian private collection, Oslo, by descent from the former.
By descent from the former until 2024.

Publications:

-  Friedrich Matz and Friedrich v. Duhn, Antike Bildwerke
in Rom, Vol. 3, Leipzig, 1882, p. 18, no. 3497.
-  Kazimierz Bulas, Les illustrations anciennes de l’Iliade,
Lviv, 1929, p. 99, note 1.
-  Guntram Koch and Hellmut Sichtermann, Römische
Sarkophage (Handbuch der Archäologie), Munich, 1982,
p. 130f.
-  Rolf M. Schneider, Bunte Barbaren. Orientalenstatuen
aus farbigem Marmor in der römischen
Repräsentationskunst, Worms, 1986, p. 18, note 13.
-  Dagmar Grassinger, Die mythologischen Sarkophage.
Achill bis Amazonen (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs), Vol.
XII.1, Berlin, 1999, p. 208, no. 38, pl. 36.3.
-  Rolf M. Schneider, “Barbar”, in Reallexikon für Antike
und Christentum Supplement, Vol. 1, Stuttgart, 2001, col.
927.
-  Andreas Grüner, Gabe und Geschenk in der römischen
Staatskunst, in Hilmar Klinkott et al., Ed., Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute. Antike Abgabenformen, in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, Leiden, 2007, p. 447.