Front Panel of a Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Childhood of Dionysos in the Princeton University Art Museum, August 2009

Front panel of a sarcophagus with scenes from the life of Dionysos
ca. 140 – 160 A.D.

Roman

Early Antonine

Fine-grained, opaque white marble with faint dark veining, probably Proconnesian

h. 38.5 cm., w. 150.5 cm., d. 5.5 cm. (15 3/16 x 59 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.) floor: d. 4.5 cm. (1 3/4 in.)

Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund

Object Number: y1949-110

Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/ancient/search/