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ECL-Bm.8:13-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.8:13-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Sarcophagus: bacchic thiasos

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Bm 8. 13 and 14 are catalogued together being drawings of the same sarcophagus

Description

Content (description)

Near each end is a lion mask with a ring in its mouth, from which hang the ends of two garlands. The rest of the garlands are hidden by figures. On far left, beyond the mask, a maenad with a drape around her legs moves into the background with her back to the viewer, holding a tympanum. On far right beyond the mask, a draped maenad, cut by the border, moves right but looks back to left. Between the masks a maenad on left and a satyr in centre dance as a maenad on right plays the tympanum. The satyr has his back to the viewer, a swag of drapery hanging from his shoulders; he holds a staff in his left hand. A tiger springs to right by his feet.

Content (object)

drawing

Content (note)

Villa Pamfilia

Dimensions

height (actual size): 405mm
width (actual size): 540mm

Inscription

Campiglia Villa Pamfilia, Facciata a Tramontana written in ink on the back of the drawing

Inscription description

B2 written in pencil on the front of the drawing upper left.
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing, lower right, truncated.

Materials & techniques note

black lead pencil on paper

Production

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Matz (I ; no. 64)
• Rossi
image 78396
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