Roman Art and Archaeology Quiz 4

• Tomb of the Egizio

• where: vatican necropolis (city for dead people)

why:

• death is a universal experience, and burials and material culture from burial contexts are great ways to see how people thought of themselves or how they wanted to be seen

• and keep in mind there is no central text on what happens to you after you die!

• MELEAGER SARCOPHAGUS

• 200 CE

• GREECE (ELEUSIS)

• example of an Attic sarcophagi (there are major schools of sarcophagi during the high empire).

• attic type=gabled roof, carved on all 4 sides bc made to be set up outside or in middle of burial chamber, continuous frieze

• SARCOPHAGUS WITH KLINE PORTRAIT

• 200 CE

• ITALY (RAPOLLA)

• asiatic sarcophagi=once again gabled roof and carved all the way around but these have sculptural panels separated by columnettes

• BATTLE SARCOPHAGUS

• 160-170CE

• rome

DYING