Marble sarcophagus

It is a box-shaped decorated reliquary with a roof in the shape of a roof. On the three sides of the main body are embossed garlands of flowers and fruits, which are held on the shoulders by naked, winged lovers, standing in the corners. On the front a plaque with a relief frame must have the name of the deceased painted on it. In the gaps wavy ribbons (ribbons) with waving ends that end in a bead. On the upper part of the main body thin, rope jewelry and lower like with a lesbian wave with alternating embossed leaves and spears.

The cover, in the shape of a gabled roof, is adorned with embossed thorn leaves and has on the narrow sides cylindrical ends in the shape of an ionic helix helix, with embossed thorn leaves and embossed rosette in the position of the eye, as well as a semicircle on the anterior surface. On the pediment two front birds, possibly peacocks, eat fruit through a crater. At the bottom of the cover belt with rope jewelry, while on the sides current spiral.

PUBLICATION
– Choremi-Spetsieri Α. 2006. Cat. no. 110, in Choremi-Spetsieri Α. – Zarkadas Α. (eds), The Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum. Ancient Art, Athens, 184-185.