The Pashley Sarcophagus, carved with the triumphal return of Dionysos

An image of Funerary Equipment. Pashley Sarcophagus, with relief showing triumphal return of Dionysos. Carved Luna Marble, height 0.697 m, length 2.22 m, weight 1.4 tonne, width 0.67 m. 101-200 AD, Middle Roman Period. Find Spot: Arvi Crete Greek Islands.

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Funerary Equipment. Pashley Sarcophagus, with relief showing triumphal return of Dionysos. Carved Luna Marble, height 0.697 m, length 2.22 m, weight 1.4 tonne, width 0.67 m. 101-200 AD, Middle Roman Period. Find Spot: Arvi Crete Greek Islands.

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Accession Number: GR.1.1835
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 44
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 375 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 357.68kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2008:07:10 17:29:11

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2nd Century AD Ancient Rome antiquity bacchantes Bacchus carved celebration celebratory centaur chariot classical antiquity dancers dancing Dionysos Dionysus drunk drunkeness elephants Fitz_ANT followers funerary gods inebriated inebriation maenads marble Middle Roman mythological mythology processions Roman sarcophagus satyrs sculpture thiasus triumph triumphal

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