Sarcophagus, 3rd century

  • Italian

Marble

  • Overall: 25 1/2 × 85 1/2 × 29 inches (64.8 × 217.2 × 73.7 cm) Base(s): 16 1/4 × 8 1/8 × 33 inches (41.3 × 20.6 × 83.8 cm) Including base: 41 7/8 × 85 1/2 × 29 inches (106.4 × 217.2 × 73.7 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

26.138

On View

  • Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

(Alfredo Barsanti, Rome, Italy)

1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lesley, P. Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1939, pp. 8–9. Vermeule, C. "Roman Sacrophagi in America." Festschrift fur Friedrich Matz. 1962, p. 102. Lesley, Parker. "Early Christian Sarcophagus." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 18, no. 2 (November 1938): pp. 8–10, p. 9 (ill.). Kateusz, Ally. Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leaderhip. Cham, 2019, pp. xvi, 124, 126, 225, note 65, fig. 5.16 (ill.).

Italian, Sarcophagus, 3rd century, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.138.