Currently not on view
Fragment of a hunt sarcophagus: head of a bearded man,
ca. 270–280 CE
Roman
Severan Period, ca. 193–235 CE
y1993-38
Information
Title
Fragment of a hunt sarcophagus: head of a bearded man
Dates
ca. 270–280 CE
Medium
Proconnesian marble, bluish with dark veins
Dimensions
26.5 x 25.8 x 12.3 cm (10 7/16 x 10 3/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
d. of top molding 12.3 cm, h. of head 18.2 cm, h. of face 13.6 cm
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
y1993-38
Period
Type
Materials
Acquired by by Sotheby Parke-Bernet from an unknown source, sold in 1982; acquired by Frederick H. Schultz, Class of 1976, between 1982 and 1993; purchased by the Museum (Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection Fund) in 1993 from Schultz.
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Egyptian, Middle Eastern, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, also ancient glass and art reference books, (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1982).
, cat. no. 313 - "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1993", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 1 (1994): p. 46-95., p. 72
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., cat. no. 109
- M. Fuchs, "Ein Fragment des Löwenjagdsarkophags München-Chapel Hill in Princeton: Zum Problem der Komposition," in Guntram Koch ed., Akten des Symposiums des Sarkophag-Corpus 2001, Marburg, 2.-7. Juli 2001, (Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 2008)., p. 13-21
