Front of a marble sarcophagus with facing peacocks
Format
TIFF
Start date
400
End date
499
Historical period
Early Byzantine/Late Antique Period
Description
Front of an Early Byzantine marble sarcophagus, probably of Ravennate production, reused as an altar front. The relief decoration features a Christogram in a clipeus in the middle, flanked by two symmetrical peacocks and two blooming trees (or branches). Two stylized semi-columns with Corinthian capitals at the corners.
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