Smith, Arthur H. [Hrsg.]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 3) (London, 1904)

CASTS OF SCULPTURE.

451

was discovered in the sixteenth century, in a sepulchral
chamber under the Monte del Grano, a mound two and a
half miles from Eome on the road to Frascati. The
original, which is of marble, is now in the Museum of
the Capitol at Borne.—Presented by T. Windus, Esq., 1848.

Height of sarcophagus, 4 feet 4 inches; length of front, 9 feet
10 inches. For the restorations, which are not considerable,
see Robert's drawings. Robert, Antike Sarkophagreliefs, II.,
pis. 14, 15. For the voluminous literature, see Robert, p. 36.
For the place of discovery, see Fabretti, De Aquis et Aquaeductibus
Eomae (Rome, 1680), p. 60, and Robert, p. 35. For the Port-
land Vase, see Cat. of Gems in the B. M., p. 225.