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ECL-Bm.8:37-2013

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ECL-Bm.8:37-2013

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Identification

Title

Sarcophagus: Calydonian boar hunt

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Bm 8. 36 and 37 are catalogued together being drawings of the same sarcophagus

Description

Content (description)

36: the participants journey to the hunt. On left stands draped old man, who looks right at Atalanta and gestures left. After Atalanta is a bearded man, who leads a hound on a leash and holds an axe in his left hand. A second hound precedes him. Behind these figures are three youths, two of whom carry hunting nets. Then the Dioscuri move right, the one in the foreground gesturing to a man on right.
37: the hunt itself. The boar emerges from behind a tree trunk on left. Two men stand far right looking left, while a huntsman sinks to the ground wounded by the tree. Two hounds rush against the boar from left, as Meleager bends to the attack. Atalanta stands by him on right and further right a huntsman prepares to strike the boar with his dagger/spear. There is another huntsman in the background on left behind Meleager.

Content (object)

drawing
urn

Content (note)

See inscription on back the relief is described as on an 'urna'

Dimensions

height (actual size): 397mm
width (actual size): 534mm

Inscription

Campiglia Villa Pamfilia. Urna in una piazzetta a fianco del palazzo verso levante written in ink on the back of the drawing

Inscription description

B 4 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left
A2 written in ink on the front of the drawing lower left, truncated
In the album in which the drawings are held is written: No. 36/No. 37 1 A 2

Materials & techniques note

black lead pencil on paper

Production

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• RR (III ; 245.1)
• ASR (III.2 no. 235)
• Rossi
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