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Season Sarcophagus

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Marble, H 19 x L 70 inches

Season Sarcophagus

Roman, 260–280 A.D.

This sarcophagus, or coffin, contains imagery, carved in high relief, symbolic of both the agricultural seasons and Bacchic ritual. On coffins and other monuments of the late Roman period, youths symbpolizing the seasons were popular features.

Museum purchase, M. H. de Young Endowment Fund

54662

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