At the Baths of Diocletian, I just happened across what appears to be a sarcophagus sized for one… it was an exciting find, especially when the fully realised single portrait is of a woman.

#SarcophagusSaturday #AncientRome #History #Italy @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons

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For the last #SarcophagusSaturday of the year, a colourful Etruscan work, the sarcophagus of Velthur Partenu. The details show Acheloos between a couple of sphinxes, and part of the battle between Greeks and Amazons.

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I love the image of the gentle shepherd and his dog on this fragment of an Endymion and Selene sarcophagus from the #GettyVilla. In the last few months, I've come across two similar sarcophagi, both with the same shepherd and dog. A sweet moment. #sarcophagussaturday

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For #SarcophagusSaturday this week we're stopping to admire the austere grace of a #sarcophagus in #tufo in the atrium of a church in central #Rome, whose #inscription I have absolutely failed to read beyond the standard "D M" ("to the departed shades").

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#SarcophagusSaturday, a sad story of a child's life and death. On the right, the new parents carry their baby in a carriage; in the middle, the toddler learns to walk with a wheeled cart; on the left, the parents carry the dead child to the tomb and the afterlife. 😔 1/

#SarcophagusSaturday! This very deeply carved marble sarcophagus with a Dionysian theme is missing a portrait of the deceased in the central clipeus. A hasty burial? Love the little Erotes at the bottom, stealing bunches of grapes from two roosters. 1/

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For #SarcophagusSaturday, the the lid of a stone coffin of a woman, wearing a chiton and himation, reclining on a couch. Face, neck have traces of flesh colour paint (#polychromy). Etruscan C3rd BC; made of volcanic stone (Nefro). In the collections of @SAMAart@twitter.com. Photo is my own.

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#SarcophagusSaturday I'm often asked if the Romans painted their spectacularly carved sarcophagi. Yes, they certainly did, as you can see from the red pigment remaining on this 3rd c. CE beauty with a Dionysian procession. ALT for more. #polychromy 1/

@laecta Over on the bird site, the #ClassicsTwitter always celebrated #MosaicMonday, #EpigraphyTuesday, #ReliefWednesday, #PhallusThursday, #FrescoFriday, and the aforementioned #SarcophagusSaturday. Sunday is a day of rest. No, not all of it makes sense, but we've had great fun with it over the years.

Taking the dog out for a walk - heel, Cerberus, heel!

Hercules performing one of his 12 Labors, dragging Cerberus out of the gates of Hades; flanked by strigilation (the waters of death) and Erotes holding fresh game. 2nd c. CE, proconnesian marble. #SarcophagusSaturday