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FASTI MODERNI 1. 11-13
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309). Scenes of vintage with their Dionysiac symbolism were popular in
the Pagan sepulchral art of the third century and passed into Christian
art as an adequate illustration of the ' workers in the vineyard of the
Lord'; cf. Strong, H/Ar-A/i?, p. 200. In the middle of
the lid is a square uninscribed name-plate with curved sides supported by
two winged boys wearing cloaks fastened with brooches. Below the plate
are two shrubs and a hound coursing a hare.
Excellent decorative work of third century A.D. Many traces of
gilding; drill freely used ; iris and pupil deeply indicated.
Found in Prati di Gastello near the Palazzo di Giustizia.
AW/. (7cvz. xvii (1889), p. 496, no. 3 ; A/A p. 445 f. (C. L. Visconti) ; AW. .SW&.
1889, p. 364.
12. PORTRAIT HERM OF A GREEK (pi. 24).
H. .313 m. Pentelic marble. Restored : lower part of nose. Ears broken.
On an antique herm, head of bearded man in middle life, looking
straight forward. Hair broadly rendered in long locks, which tend to the
right on the forehead. Beard worked more minutely in short close-lying
curls, which do not hide the form of the firm chin. Horizontal wrinkles
on the forehead. On the crown of the head is a deep hole.
Fair work of the beginning of the second century A. D. The herm is
a copy from a Greek portrait of the early part of the fourth century B. c.
Helbig believes that this head and another in the Villa Albani (Arndt-
Bruckmann, 589, 590) represent the same person as a herm in the
Vatican (Galleria Geografica, go, Helbig^, 401, Arndt-Bruckmann, g8g,
g86) at a more advanced age.
Found on the Esquiline (Via Bixio).
AW/. U07/2. ii (18/4), p. 230, no. 19 ; Amdt-Bruckmann, 38/, 388 ; HelbigS, 899.
13. SARCOPHAGUS WITH HUNTING SCENES (pi. 13).
H.-89 m., L. 2.11 m. Marble, Greek (lid: ?*3&%,r<rZo7M). Unrestored.
The face of the sarcophagus is decorated with hunting scenes, arranged
from 1. to r. as follows. A beardless man dressed in sleeved tunic, mantle,
which is fastened at the r. shoulder with a large round brooch and flutters
behind him in the wind, and high boots, attacks with a long spear held in
both hands a boar advancing to 1., and pierces it below the jaw. In the
background between the man and the boar is an oak-tree. The boar is
also attacked by two hounds. One springs up at its neck, the other has
a grip of its 1. shoulder. Behind the boar another huntsman in sleeved
tunic and fur cloak drives a short spear into the beast's neck by the 1. ear.
Next comes a man, dressed like the last, who stands quietly and holds in
both hands a hound wounded in the side.
Beyond this group a horseman gallops to r., holding the reins in
his 1. hand and stretching out his r. arm behind him. He is dressed like
the man first described and his cloak too flutters in the wind in the same
way. His horse has a fringed saddle-cloth, girths with pendants, and
plaited reins. In front of him a stag has fallen back on its haunches.
A spear, thrown by the horseman (?), has pierced its r. flank and a hound
seizes its r. hind leg. In the background an oak-tree.
Next is a man dressed like the second man from the 1. He turns
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309). Scenes of vintage with their Dionysiac symbolism were popular in
the Pagan sepulchral art of the third century and passed into Christian
art as an adequate illustration of the ' workers in the vineyard of the
Lord'; cf. Strong, H/Ar-A/i?, p. 200. In the middle of
the lid is a square uninscribed name-plate with curved sides supported by
two winged boys wearing cloaks fastened with brooches. Below the plate
are two shrubs and a hound coursing a hare.
Excellent decorative work of third century A.D. Many traces of
gilding; drill freely used ; iris and pupil deeply indicated.
Found in Prati di Gastello near the Palazzo di Giustizia.
AW/. (7cvz. xvii (1889), p. 496, no. 3 ; A/A p. 445 f. (C. L. Visconti) ; AW. .SW&.
1889, p. 364.
12. PORTRAIT HERM OF A GREEK (pi. 24).
H. .313 m. Pentelic marble. Restored : lower part of nose. Ears broken.
On an antique herm, head of bearded man in middle life, looking
straight forward. Hair broadly rendered in long locks, which tend to the
right on the forehead. Beard worked more minutely in short close-lying
curls, which do not hide the form of the firm chin. Horizontal wrinkles
on the forehead. On the crown of the head is a deep hole.
Fair work of the beginning of the second century A. D. The herm is
a copy from a Greek portrait of the early part of the fourth century B. c.
Helbig believes that this head and another in the Villa Albani (Arndt-
Bruckmann, 589, 590) represent the same person as a herm in the
Vatican (Galleria Geografica, go, Helbig^, 401, Arndt-Bruckmann, g8g,
g86) at a more advanced age.
Found on the Esquiline (Via Bixio).
AW/. U07/2. ii (18/4), p. 230, no. 19 ; Amdt-Bruckmann, 38/, 388 ; HelbigS, 899.
13. SARCOPHAGUS WITH HUNTING SCENES (pi. 13).
H.-89 m., L. 2.11 m. Marble, Greek (lid: ?*3&%,r<rZo7M). Unrestored.
The face of the sarcophagus is decorated with hunting scenes, arranged
from 1. to r. as follows. A beardless man dressed in sleeved tunic, mantle,
which is fastened at the r. shoulder with a large round brooch and flutters
behind him in the wind, and high boots, attacks with a long spear held in
both hands a boar advancing to 1., and pierces it below the jaw. In the
background between the man and the boar is an oak-tree. The boar is
also attacked by two hounds. One springs up at its neck, the other has
a grip of its 1. shoulder. Behind the boar another huntsman in sleeved
tunic and fur cloak drives a short spear into the beast's neck by the 1. ear.
Next comes a man, dressed like the last, who stands quietly and holds in
both hands a hound wounded in the side.
Beyond this group a horseman gallops to r., holding the reins in
his 1. hand and stretching out his r. arm behind him. He is dressed like
the man first described and his cloak too flutters in the wind in the same
way. His horse has a fringed saddle-cloth, girths with pendants, and
plaited reins. In front of him a stag has fallen back on its haunches.
A spear, thrown by the horseman (?), has pierced its r. flank and a hound
seizes its r. hind leg. In the background an oak-tree.
Next is a man dressed like the second man from the 1. He turns