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A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS RELIEF FRAGMENT OF A PHILOSOPHER, LATE 3RD CENTURY A.D. | A Roman Marble Sarcophagus Relief Fragment of a Philosopher
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- 31 by 27 by 20 cm.
from the right end corner of a strigillated sarcophagus, carved with the figure of a philosopher standing before a curtain (parapetasma) and grasping the folds of his mantle falling from his left shoulder, the side carved in low relief with an unidentifed motif; no restorations.
Provenance
French private collection, acquired in the 1960s, said to have been found in Lyon
acquired by the present owner on the Paris art market
acquired by the present owner on the Paris art market
Catalogue Note
For related examples see É. Espérandieu, Recueil général des bas-reliefs de la Gaule romaine, vol. III, 1910, p. 28, no. 1772 (from Lyon), G. Koch and H. Sichtermann, Römische Sarkophage, 1982, fig. 291, Sotheby's, New York, The Stansfeld Collection of Ancient Art, December 2nd, 1988, no. 59, and http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/872022.