SARCOPHAGUS WITH THE FOUR SEASONS, 270-280 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This sarcophagus was acquired by Pius VI for the VM from its discoverers, and now holds a prominent position in the Belvedere Courtyard. It's tub-shaped, a lenòs, and, as often happens with such sarcophagi, has two lions savaging antelopes at the curved ends. From left to right, two on either side of the central figure, stand youthful male figures representing the Seasons: Winter, fully dressed in tunic and cloak, holding up a duck he has hunted; Spring, nude but for his cloak, with one arm bearing a branch with new leaves; Summer, also nude but for a cloak, holding a herdsman's staff; and Fall, holding a container of fruit and a freshly-hunted rabbit. At centre is the young male deceased with a peripetasma or curtain behind him, held up by Spring and Summer. The face has been carved for a male, but the figure is female, in a dress and stola.

#SarcophagusSaturday at the #VaticanMuseums gives us this odd C18 display of a very toned seminude reclining woman with a #Flavian hairdo, the lid to a different #sarcophagus than the one it's on, which shows the deceased flanked by the Four Seasons (not the band). 270-280 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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SARCOPHAGUS WITH THE RAPE OF PERSEPHONE, 160-180 CE. GALLERIE DEGLI UFFIZI This splendid C2 CE sarcophagus in Pentelic marble begins and ends at both sides with Horæ, goddesses of the seasons. But the movement in this continuous scene goes rightward. The central conflict involves Athena, who is trying to dissuade Hades from kidnapping his niece. He's not interested. Persephone is swooning in his arms and an Eros flutters over her outstretched arm, as a sign that Hades is doing this for love. Below the chariot's rearing horses, the goddess Tellus, the Earth, is also raising a hand in dismay. In front of the chariot is Hermes Psychopompos, leader of souls to the Underworld. This subject was popular as a reference to circular time and the possibility of a return from death. To the left, Aphrodite is tugging at Athena's shield: love as the enemy of wisdom. Behind Aphrodite, two of Persephone's friends are objecting. At left is the chariot of Demeter, pulled by two fantastic serpents. She's in hot pursuit of her brother, but won't get to him in time to save her daughter from his clutches.

For #SarcophagusSaturday we have this marvellous #sarcophagus in the #Uffizi in #Florence, full of movement, showing the seizing of #Persephone by #Hades, a metaphor for the soul's journey to the #Underworld. This dates from 160-180 CE and comes from the #Medici collections. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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SARCOPHAGUS WITH THE MYTH OF ORESTES, C. 150 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This is an odd, ambiguous subject for a sarcophagus. Clytemnestra, queen of Mycenæ, and her lover, the king's cousin Ægisthus, murder the king Agamemnon - his wife wants revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia, his cousin wants to carry on a blood feud. Anyway their kids Electra and Orestes get riled up about this and much suffering ensues. Here at centre we find Orestes, nude except for his cape and a sword, standing over the corpse of his mother whom he has just slain. At left is Ægisthus, also dead and in an awkward position, being dealt with by Orestes' chum Pylades. Back in time, at left, an old nurse is telling Electra of her father's murder as her attendants swoon around her. To the right of the central crime scene, two Erinyes or Furies emerge from behind a curtain. Below them, a slave with a scroll tries to avoid catching their attention. At far right Orestes is escaping them, seeking absolution.

An amazing #sarcophagus from c. 150 CE in the #VaticanMuseums for #SarcophagusSaturday with an excellent buffet of ancient sculptures atop it. The scene shows the #myth of #Orestes, and corpses litter the landscape, with vengeful Orestes wreaking havoc. The House of Atreus, eh! #AncientBluesky 🏺

SARCOPHAGUS FRONT WITH THE DOORS TO THE UNDERWORLD, 240-250 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This profusely-populated sarcophagus front comes from Villa Peretti. At centre, under a triangular pediment supported by columns with Ionic capitals, are the two richly-carved doors to Hades, the left leaf cracked open to draw the dead in. The deceased don't seem to be in a hurry to get their afterlife underway. At left, the wife is in an open-armed praying posture, piously veiled but stylishly dressed in a tunic and stola. Behind her, urging her on, is Persephone. Similarly, her stout husband on the right (both of them are stabding in elegant arched ædicules) is wearing the toga contabulata and is staring forward as bearded Hades himself is telling him he has to go. He too is praying in the orans position, though in one hand he holds a scroll. Two naked youths on low plinths are statues of seasons, both looking up at the deceased. To everything there is a season: death now, rebirth perhaps later.

#SarcophagusSaturday at the #VaticanMuseums offers us this #sarcophagus front in hugh #relief from 240-250 CE. The doors to the Underworld are creaking open at centre and the deceased couple stand on either side in arched ædicules, notably unwilling to begin their trip to #Hades. #AncientBluesky 🏺

The re-used Roman Sarcophagus that holds the relics of St Richard* King of Wessex** in San Frediano, Lucca - where he died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 720 AD.

(*his real name is unknown)
(**he was not a King of Wessex)

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SARCOPHAGUS OF HELENA, C. 320 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS The empress Helena, mother of Constantine, died in 329. Her colossal mausoleum still partially stands as Tor Pignattara, and was moved to the Lateran in 1154 so pope Anastasius II could be buried in it. It's an amazingly beautiful huge block of Egyptian porphyry carved in high relief, showing military scenes of Roman soldiers with captured barbarians, and is a masterpiece of realism, difficult to achieve in such a hard stone. Two busts on the front might be of Helena and her husband Constantius Chlorus. The lid, still intact, shows garlands held by cherubs. The military theme, inappropriate for a famously pious (and sanctified) lady, suggests that this might have been made for her husband or son. But chroniclers of the eastern empire are unanimous that she was buried along with her son in his own porphyry sarcophagus in the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. This sarcophagus might not have been made for her, and perhaps she was never laid in it. The presence of Helena recedes like a ghost, the closer you come to it.

#SarcophagusSaturday at the #VaticanMuseums gives us this masterpiece of #relief sculpture, the #sarcophagus of #Helena, mother of #Constantine, from about 320 CE. The female portrait on the front corner nearest us is probably Helena's. But was she ever buried in it? #AncientBluesky 🏺

BATTLE SCENE FROM THE GREAT TRAJANIC FRIEZE, 114-120 CE. ARCH OF CONSTANTINE This triumphal arch is a triumph of spolia, consisting as it does of many pieces of relief work from the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, intelligently chosen by Constantine in 315-316 to reflect a reassuring programme of pacification and an end to civil war. Four large panels from a Hadrianic relief 30 m long and 3 m high, of which this is one, were reused. This relief is known as the Great Trajanic Frieze, though its original location is unknown. It is often said to have come from Trajan's Forum, though that was intact until at least the reign of Theodoric, two centuries after the arch was built. This scene shows a mêlée between Roman cavalry and infantry and Dacians who are falling or already on the ground. In the background are three trumpeters blowing the curved horns called buccinæ, and the whole scene resembles the front of the Great Ludovisi Sarcophagus, from 250-260 CE.

#ReliefWednesday takes us to the #Arch of #Constantine in #Rome, where a piece of the so-called Great Trajanic #Frieze, probably from the reign of #Hadrian, shows a battle scene from the #Dacian wars which may have influenced the sculptor of the Great #Ludovisi #sarcophagus. #AncientBluesky 🏺

SARCOPHAGUS FRONT, 210-220 CE, AND FAKE SARCOPHAGUS FRONT, 1607. PALAZZO MATTEI DI GIOVE This is fun. At top we have a relief with Erotes holding not one but three separate clipei. The two central Erotes are actually holding a heavy garland of fruit which has the clipeus wedged between its ends. The two side Erotes are aided by two tritons with double tails who support the clipei from below. The sarcophagus would be far too small to contain three bodies, and the three-clipeus design is totally aberrant. This is a fake from when the courtyard was built in around 1607. The lower, more crowded sarcophagus front shows Mars striding toward the sexy sleeping Vestal Rhea Silvia, an altogether superior work in design and execution. A bevy of other gods are all watching intently. They are in attendance because the sex act about to take place will result in the birth of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.

At #palazzoMattei di #Giove in #Rome, we have *two* #sarcophagus fronts but only *one* is real. The other is a C17 fake. Our #SarcophagusSaturday challenge is to decide which is which. Before I tell you the answer in the ALT text, try and guess. #AncientBluesky 🏺

CHILD'S SARCOPHAGUS WITH EROTES, 175-200 CE. PALAZZO MATTEI DI GIOVE This beautiful little sarcophagus was given pride of place in the disposition of Asdrubale Mattei's antiquities collection in the courtyard of his palace. It sits atop two little lion-headed trapezophoroi (carved supports) and has a lid much too small for it, with a reclining child on it. The front is framed on both ends with spiral-fluted columns, and four internal pilasters create five square panels in which five delightful Erotes with wings and chlamys dance. The first at left is holding up a string from which hangs a drum and the second brandishes a baton tied with a ribbon. The central Eros is a sort of Orpheus, holding a lyre in one hand and a plectrum in the other. The fourth bears a thyrsus and the last Eros, or the first if they are in procession, is carrying a reversed torch, symbolising death.

A child's #sarcophagus is always sad, even when it's part of a gigantic #spolia centrepiece at the back of the courtyard of #palazzoMattei di #Giove in #Rome. This one, from 175-200 CE, has #Erotes dancing between pilasters, evoking the innocent joys of a childhood cut short. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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SARCOPHAGUS FRONT WITH THE THREE GRACES, C. 140-150 CE. PALAZZO MATTEI DI GIOVE This sarcophagus front is incorporated into the wall decoration of the courtyard of the splendid palazzo Mattei di Giove. Its themes of love and beauty are a compliment to the deceased, a beloved wife. The Three Graces at centre are known in several versions as free-standing statues. The central Grace has turned her back to us and has her arms extended to embrace her two sisters against a knotted cloth background. Two little Erotes are helping the two side Graces with their toilette. To right and left are two winged couples, Cupid and Psyche, the latter with moth wings. The kissing couple at right resembles a little statue group from Ostia now in the Capitoline Museums. Two more Erotes at either end complete the relief. This sarcophagus is a carved poem to a lost woman of surpassing grace, much loved.

For #ValentinesDay2026 give her what she really wants: a #sarcophagus. After all, it's #SarcophagusSaturday. This unusual front shows the Three #Graces at centre, flanked by #Erotes and two couples of #Cupid and #Psyche, from c. 140-150 CE, in palazzo Mattei di Giove in #Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

This Portland limestone #sarcophagus on Clifton Downs in #Bristol honours the ‘departed Warriors’ of the 79th Regiment, who died under William Draper during the Seven Years’ War, and is believed to be the UK’s oldest war memorial. #MemorialMonday #Military #Manilla #History #MilitaryMonday #Monument

SARCOPHAGUS WITH A MARRIAGE SCENE, C2 CE. SAN SABA The church of S. Saba on the lesser Aventine has an ancient history. According to legend, it was built on the site of a C6 oratory where St Silvia, mother of pope Gregory the Great, came to pray. Ruins underneath the church have found a C7 oratory and possibly a barracks for the IVth cohort of the ancient fire service, the Vigiles. The oratory was run by Greek monks and by the C9 this was the most important and powerful monastery in Rome. Probably by that time this huge sarcophagus was reused for a prominent member of the community. In origin it was for a married couple who we see twice: the wife at the left corner, the husband at the right, and at the centre, between strigilated panels, is the couple at the moment in their wedding when they take each other's right hand as a symbol of their union. A face between their heads is probably Juno's. Both faces were disfigured, probably for Christian reuse.

This #SarcophagusSaturday we're in the porch of #SanSaba on the #Aventine hill in #Rome to find a magnificent C3 #sarcophagus with a husband and wife joined in marriage by #Juno. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Church of St. Mary, Paddington, London. Pedestal, sarcophagus to Thrupp family with gadrooned edge and swept cover with further gadrooning surmounted by shallow pediment. Late C18-early C19. Photos: 26.09.2024. #London #monument #tomb #grave #burial #sarcophagus

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Roman carved sarcophagus. Capitoline museum. Rome.

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SARCOPHAGUS "OF THE TWO BROTHERS", C. 350 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS Though the Christian iconography of this high-status sarcophagus is interesting, beginning at top left with the resurrection of Lazarus in which he is for once not wrapped tightly in bandages but seems to be apologising for arriving late to the party, the main curiosity of this relief is the double portrait at centre, within a carved scallop shell. This was certainly carved as a "pre-need" box for a generic Christian husband and wife joined in the dextrarum iunctio: the figure at left still has a breast swelling its dress. But both faces are of bearded men. The "female" figure has had her hand recarved in a gesture of blessing, and the "male" figure has had his left arm removed and recarved. Despite being known as the "two brothers", these two men don't resemble each other. We don't have to presume a same-sex union but these men were very close.

#SarcophagusSaturday this week gives us the monumental #sarcophagus "of the Two Brothers", from about 350 CE, in the #VaticanMuseums. Two registers of Biblical scenes have a scalloped portrait #clipeus inserted at centre, originally a married couple but recarved to show two men. #AncientBluesky 🏺

…always shot onto the electricians trying to repair the line. It took 18 days until Ukraine was able to get #Russia to allow them to repair that 375kW line. Russia shot onto the #Chernobyl nuclear power plant at the beginning of the war and not long ago again and penetrated the #sarcophagus over it.

SALVATION-THEMED CHRISTIAN SARCOPHAGUS, C4, CUT AND REUSED AS A WASHBASIN, C. 1300. OSPEDALE SAN GIOVANNI ADDOLORATA This was originally a rather splendid sarcophagus for an adult, with four different scenes in relief on it: two on either side of the central tabula (the place for an epitaph) and two others at the corners. About 1000 years after its original use, it was cut down so only two reliefs and the jagged edge of the tabula remain. At the corner is a scene of Christ resurrecting the tiny swaddled Lazarus on the ground, as Peter looks on, while the more central relief shows Peter and Christ with a rooster, telegraphing the story of Peter's failure to stay awake and keep Jesus company on the last night before his capture and crucifixion. Thsse scenes are part of a story of forgiveness and rebirth that point to Christian salvation. The sign of its reused function is the tiny channel cut into the lip of the box, to let water in or out.

#SpoliaSunday at the #OspedaleSanGiovanni in #Rome presents us with a truncated C4 #Christian #sarcophagus that has been reused as a washbasin for the #medieval #hospital. Here we can see the brutal hack through the central tabula and the marble panel insert to close it off. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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CHILD'S SARCOPHAGUS A LENÒS, 270-290 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This splendid late-C3 sarcophagus comes from the catacombs of Cyriaca on the via Tiburtina, right where the basilica of S. Lorenzo now stands. It was a gift of the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Marcantonio Colonna, to Pius VI Braschi in 1783. The lid has a reclining portrait of the little boy, with a lively tilt to his head, as if we'd just disturbed him from reading the scroll in his hand. This same studious boy is shown on the front of the box, as a sort of Apollo-like philosopher, heroically bare-chested, with other boys on either side of him holding the attributes of the Muses. We know he's the deceased because behind him hangs the knotted sheet or peripetasma that indicates the portrait of the dead. His parents must have been very proud of him to have him represented in such an individual way.

#SarcophagusSaturday at the #VaticanMuseums presents us with this wonderful little #sarcophagus of a boy, from 270-290 CE, with his reclining #portrait on the lid and another portrait of him on the side, as a philosopher #Apollo with other children as #Muses at either side. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Detail of the sarcophagus of a royal mummy from ancient Egypt, most likely holding the mortal remains of King Smenkhkare, who ruled briefly 1336 - 1334 BCE.

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SARCOPHAGUS FRONT, C. 250 CE. PANTHEON. The Pantheon was so heavily restored in the late C19 that it is hard to imagine what it looked like before it was "returned to its original state". Indeed, it gratifies us with its apparent antiquity. But it was not always thus. Sometimes pieces were cut from the floor for use elsewhere, and replaced with what could be found. In this case, a sarcophagus front was cut down to size and turned face down to serve as a paver or indeed a floor tomb. Before these medieval or later insertions were removed, the Pantheon's stone pavement looked much different to its current appearance. They mostly replaced the pavonazzetto frames of the pattern of circles and squares. Floor tombs also infiltrated the side chapels. Here we see a couple in the clipeus at centre, but both figures are of unspecific sex and to my eye both look female. The figure at left is in profile with one arm thrown over the shoulders of the other figure. The latter holds a scroll.

#SarcophagusSaturday at the #Pantheon. In the rooms behind the #BasilicaofNeptune a lapidarium was arranged after the buildings clustering around the Pantheon were demolished. One piece, which had been used as a paver, turned out to be part of a #sarcophagus from c. 250 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺