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Original scientific paper

A LOST FRAGMENT OF AN ATTIC SARCOPHAGUS AT THE ISLAND OF RAB

Radovan Ivančević ; Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu


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Abstract

On the basis of photographs, earlier measurements and analysis (1962), the author published (1962) a lost marble fragment of a sarcophagus from Antiquity at the island of Rab. Comparative analysis proves that the fragment depicting a horse 's rump, the back of a naked rider and a helmet belongs to the Meleager type of Attica sarcophagi made of Pentelic marble, dating from around 200 A. D. In terms of iconography, form and quality, it resembles the relief on the left side of the sarcophagus from Istanbul “Meleager Slays Thestiades” (its mirror image). It also resembles the sarcophagus from Salona in Split, Dalmatia. The author claims that this may be a fragment of the sarcophagus from the island of Rab, another fragment of which is kept at the Archeological Museum in Zadar.

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Hrčak ID:

114577

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/114577

Publication date:

10.12.1997.

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