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A Roman marble sarcophagus lid fragment with Endymion

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1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Roman marble sarcophagus lid fragment with Endymion
Circa early 3rd Century A.D.
Carved in relief with four arcades, one containing Endymion, the youthful male sleeping in his typical pose, his right arm raised, hand behind his head, reclining beneath an overhanging tree, wearing an exomis and holding a pedum (shepherd's crook), flanked by two couchant horses, a further arcade with standing figures, possibly Hypnos and Eros, 60cm x 13.5cm

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Provenance:
De Montfort collection.
Mr A. collection, Paris.

Published:
F. Antonovich, Les Métamorphoses Divines d'Alexandre, Paris, 1996, p. 91.

Cf. the lid of the marble sarcophagus with the myth of Selene and Endymion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 47.100.4a,b. The myth of Endymion and Selene was a popular and fitting subject for sarcophagi. Endymion, the most beautiful of men, was the beloved of Selene, the moon goddess, and was granted eternal youth, and eternal sleep, by Hypnos, thereby enabling the goddess to visit him for eternity. The horses depicted here may refer to those which pulled her chariot. For another marble sarcophagus of the same subject, see the Louvre, Paris, acc. no. LL50, and J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, acc. no. 76.AA.8.

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