A Banquet in the Open Air, early 4th century CE

  • Roman

Marble, glass, and clay

  • 26 × 26 × 2 5/8 inches (66 × 66 × 6.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund

54.492

On View

  • Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

(Adolf Loewi)

1954-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Kondoleon, Christine. Antioch: The Lost City. Exh cat., Worcester Art Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Baltimore Art Museum. 2000, cat. no. 68, pp. 184-186, (color ill.). Dunbabin, K.M.D. "Nec grave nec infacetum: the imagery of convivial entertainment." In Das römische Bankett im Spiegel der Altertumswissenschaften, Internationales Kolloquium 5./6. Oktober 2005, Schloß Mickeln, Düsseldorf, ed. by K. Vössing, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008, p. 23-5, plates section (fig. 13) (article pp. 13-26).

Roman, A Banquet in the Open Air, early 4th century CE, marble, glass, and clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund, 54.492.