This was particularly true in the case of the sarcophagus.
Vatican roman sarcophagus marble relief.
The original composition depicted an entire assembly of figures in high relief.
In the burial practices of ancient rome and roman funerary art marble and limestone sarcophagi elaborately carved in relief were characteristic of elite inhumation burials from the 2nd to the 4th centuries ad.
Please note that due to photography restrictions the images used in the video show the plaster cast on display in the vatican museum.
An inscription on the unfinished back of the sarcophagus records that it was installed there in 1733.
Standing in the foreground is a young woman facing the viewer and behind her a read more.
From cerveteri necropoli of the banditaccia.
At least 10 000 roman sarcophagi have survived with fragments possibly representing as many as 20 000.
Sarcophagus in circeo marble with polychrome relief the deceased reclines on the lid which is decorated at each end in roof fashion.
The roman funerary relief.
This attractive relief was part of a large marble sarcophagus designed to commemorate an important roman individual.
Tomb of the sarcophagi.
This highly ornate and extremely well preserved roman marble sarcophagus came to the metropolitan museum from the collection of the dukes of beaufort and was formerly displayed in their country seat badminton house in gloucestershire england.
A sarcophagus is defined as a coffin carved from stone.
Sarcophagus of junius bassus sarcophagus of junius bassus marble 359 ce treasury of saint peter s basilica.
Two women are preserved on this segment.
The commemoration of death in ancient rome took much of its inspiration from ancient greece.