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Christian Art.
seated on the rock watching for the fishes and from my rod
I set the bait floating.”
From its style this sarcophagus is 3rd century A. D. and
one of the earliest known Christian coffins.
Billedtavler pl. LXXII. v. Sybel: Christliche Antike II fig. 6 and p. 113
seq. De Waal: Sarkophag des Bassus p. 21. G. Wilpert: I sarcofagi christiani
antichi I pl. LIX 3. Schonebeck, Rom. Mitt. 51, 1936 p. 245 No. 5. Treated
very extensively by Fr. Gerke: Die christlichen Sarkophage der vorkonstanti-
nischen Zeit pp. 38-51 (dated to the beginning of the 3rd century A. D.) and
pl, 2, 1. Also, cf. p. 56 note 7, p. 66 and other references p. 339. For the type
of wind god cf. Arndt-Amelung 1164-65.
832 a. (I. N. 2233). Fragment of a pagan sarcophagus. M.
II. 0.28, Br. 0.56. The surface much spoilt. Technique and style
reveal contemporaneity with No. 832, 3rd cent. A. D.
Like No. 832, this fragment is also of a child’s sarcophagus,
but it is not the principal relief, being a part of the relief-
ornamented front of the lid. Seven figures are shown, some
standing with drinking vessels or ladles or—extreme left—
a cymbal in their hands, others on the ground gathered
about the sigma-shaped cushion. Remnants of two bread
baskets can be discerned, and midway between them the
head of a boar.
As the boar’s head shows, this is a banquet scene after the
hunt and the motive often occurs in conjunction with hunting
scenes on Roman sarcophagi. It was borrowed as the Meal
of the Immortals in Christian art, but on our fragment there
is no suggestion whatever of Christian symbolism.
Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. XIV. Fr. Gerke: Die christlichen Sarkophage der
vorkonstantinischen Zeit p. Ill seq., where the entire group is discussed. On
funeral banquets in early Christian art v. Sybel: Christliche Antike I pp. 196
and 198, II p. 94.
833. (I. N. 566 A). Mediaeval prince. Bust. M.
H. 0.36, br. 0.32. The head has been broken off but belongs to the
bust. The nose is gone. The beard is drilled in primitive fashion.
The bust was acquired in 1907 from the dealer Bardini at Florence.
With its grimacing, lean features and the curious leaf-like
crown this head evidently belongs to early mediaeval Italian
(Norman-Hohenstauf?) art.
Billedtavler pl. LXXII.
591
seated on the rock watching for the fishes and from my rod
I set the bait floating.”
From its style this sarcophagus is 3rd century A. D. and
one of the earliest known Christian coffins.
Billedtavler pl. LXXII. v. Sybel: Christliche Antike II fig. 6 and p. 113
seq. De Waal: Sarkophag des Bassus p. 21. G. Wilpert: I sarcofagi christiani
antichi I pl. LIX 3. Schonebeck, Rom. Mitt. 51, 1936 p. 245 No. 5. Treated
very extensively by Fr. Gerke: Die christlichen Sarkophage der vorkonstanti-
nischen Zeit pp. 38-51 (dated to the beginning of the 3rd century A. D.) and
pl, 2, 1. Also, cf. p. 56 note 7, p. 66 and other references p. 339. For the type
of wind god cf. Arndt-Amelung 1164-65.
832 a. (I. N. 2233). Fragment of a pagan sarcophagus. M.
II. 0.28, Br. 0.56. The surface much spoilt. Technique and style
reveal contemporaneity with No. 832, 3rd cent. A. D.
Like No. 832, this fragment is also of a child’s sarcophagus,
but it is not the principal relief, being a part of the relief-
ornamented front of the lid. Seven figures are shown, some
standing with drinking vessels or ladles or—extreme left—
a cymbal in their hands, others on the ground gathered
about the sigma-shaped cushion. Remnants of two bread
baskets can be discerned, and midway between them the
head of a boar.
As the boar’s head shows, this is a banquet scene after the
hunt and the motive often occurs in conjunction with hunting
scenes on Roman sarcophagi. It was borrowed as the Meal
of the Immortals in Christian art, but on our fragment there
is no suggestion whatever of Christian symbolism.
Tillseg til Billedtavler pl. XIV. Fr. Gerke: Die christlichen Sarkophage der
vorkonstantinischen Zeit p. Ill seq., where the entire group is discussed. On
funeral banquets in early Christian art v. Sybel: Christliche Antike I pp. 196
and 198, II p. 94.
833. (I. N. 566 A). Mediaeval prince. Bust. M.
H. 0.36, br. 0.32. The head has been broken off but belongs to the
bust. The nose is gone. The beard is drilled in primitive fashion.
The bust was acquired in 1907 from the dealer Bardini at Florence.
With its grimacing, lean features and the curious leaf-like
crown this head evidently belongs to early mediaeval Italian
(Norman-Hohenstauf?) art.
Billedtavler pl. LXXII.
591