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ECL-Bm.3:9-2012

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Object number

ECL-Bm.3:9-2012

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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): 484mm
width (actual size): 852mm

Inscription

Villa Borghese. Secondo Recinto p.87

Inscription description

written in pencil on the front of the drawing, lower left: CD XIV
written in pencil on the back of the drawing: 9

Materials & techniques note

red chalk on paper

Production

Person

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Montelatici (87)
• ASR (II ; no.59)
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