27³⁄₄ in. (70.4 cm.) high

Acquired by the current owner by 1991.

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Lot Essay

Likely from the end of a sarcophagus, the relief features two bearded figures sculpted in shallow relief, the one to the right holding a spear. A similar composition can be seen on a Meleager sarcophagus in Rome at the Palazzo Doria Pamphili, no. 184 in G. Koch, Römische Sarkophage.