Inv. n°: MMoCA275

Roman Marble Sarcophagus Fragment

From the corner of a sarcophagus, carved in high relief. On one side with a nude satyr facing right, with pointed ears and deeply drilled locks, a goat-skin falling in folds over his left shoulder, bending down and pouring wine from a bucket, his left foot on a wine skin, with a portly diminutive Eros on the right, looking up into the bucket and clasping the rim with his left hand, the remains of a hand in the upper right corner, holding aloft; the left side carved in low relief with a horned-lion griffin in profile striding to the right.

h. 55.9 x w. 43.5 cm

Early 3rd century AD

Marble

Provenance

  • Formerly part of a European private collection
  • Christie's New York, "The Property of a European Collector", 9th December 1999
  • Acquired at Bonhams, London, 29th April 2009, lot 36

Publications

  • Bonhams Antiquities Sale, London, 29th April 2011
  • M. Burns, "Roman Marble Sculpture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p.110, fig.79

Exhibitions

  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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