ECL-Bm.9:37-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.9:37-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: 'Cleobis and Biton'
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Museo Archeologico, Venice inv. 235
Description
Content (description)
On left a female stands in an ox cart and drives to right. Two youths in tunics stand behind the animal and look back to her. In the centre, the female stands at a small shrine, in front of which a child lies on the ground. On right a female with billowing drapery drives (? the chariot is not shown) behind two horses to right. On far right two infants stand at the knee of a seated female. There is rocky ground in the foreground; trees grow all across the background.
Content (object)
drawing
Content (note)
In Museo Archeologico, Venice, inv 235
Dimensions
height (actual size): 267mm
width (actual size): 419mm
width (actual size): 419mm
Inscription
E Bibliotecha Sti Marci Venetiis written in ink on the back of the drawing
Materials & techniques note
pen and black ink on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Anti (157-9 Sala XIII.4)
• ASR (III.3 no. 438)
• ASR (III.3 no. 438)
