ECL-Bm.3:8/1-2012
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.3:8/1-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: story of an Amazon (?)
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
On left a female sits on a rock to left with a child on her knee, while two females mourn in the background and a male with his head covered (priest?) gestures on right. Next two Amazons with pelta shields lead a horse to right and the leading one joins hands with a bearded male wearing a cape and a Phrygian cap (Priam?). Four males wearing capes, two of them with caps, look on from the right. A fifth male stands in an attitude of grief, separated from the foregoing by a pelta shield. On right by an arch a female with her head covered sits in grief on a mound to right, a female attendant behind her; a figure in Phrygian garments attempts to comfort her. On far right, separated from the rest by a half-arch and a wall, seven Amazons prepare for battle, fitting on their armour and on far right, steadying a horse.
Content (object)
drawing
Dimensions
height (actual size): 481mm
width (actual size): 751mm
width (actual size): 751mm
Inscription
Villa Borghese. Secondo Recinto p.87
Inscription description
written in pencil on front of the drawing, lower right: B D XIV
written in pencil on the back of the drawing: 8 - 1
written in pencil on the back of the drawing: 8 - 1
Materials & techniques note
red chalk on paper
Production
Person
Ciferri, Bernardino (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Montelatici (87)
• ASR (II ; no.59)
• ASR (II ; no.59)