Marble sarcophagus with flying erotes holding a clipeus portrait, Severan, ca. A.D. 190–200, Roman, Marble, Proconnesian, Overall: 17 3/4 x 70 1/2 x 21 in. (45.1 x 179.1 x 53.3 cm), Stone Sculpture, The young beardless soldier commemorated in the portrait wears a military cloak, pinned at his right shoulder. The portrait borne aloft implied the ascent of the deceased to the heavens, while Tellus and Oceanus, the Earth and Ocean, reclined below, symbolizing the regenerative cycles of life
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Marble sarcophagus, flying erotes holding, clipeus portrait, Severan, ca, .D, 190–200, Roman, Marble, Proconnesian, Overall, 17 3/4 x 70 1/2 21, 45.1 179.1 53.3 cm, Stone Sculpture, young, beardless, soldier, commemorated, portrait wears, military cloak, pinned, right shoulder, borne, aloft, implied, ascent, deceased, heavens, Tellus, Oceanus, Earth, Ocean, reclined, symbolizing, regenerative cycles, life
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