A Marble Sarcophagus Fragment with Carousing Erotes and Psychai
Carved in high relief with a scene from a Dionysiac procession, led by a Psyche holding a cymbal, her drapery windblown, followed by an Erote clad in a chlamys and holding a lantern, and followed in turn by an Erote collapsed in the arms of his companions and holding a wreath.
Michele Zoppo, Via Coronari, 17/18, Rome, circa 1971
Sotheby's, London, April 4th, 1977, no. 197, illus.
New York private collection.
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome, neg. nos. 71.1128 and 71.1139
Luisa Musso, in Museo Nazionale Romano. Vol. I,10 Magazzini. I sarcofagi, part 2, Rome, 1988, p. 90 (no. 107)
Peter Kranz, Die stadtrömischen Eroten-Sarkophage, Erster Faszikel: Dionysische Themen (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, 5,2), Berlin, 1995, pp. 24, 58, 65, 68, 113, esp. 147, no. 61, pl. 51, 1
For another fragment from the same sarcophagus, also on the art market in Rome in 1971, see P. Kranz, op. cit., no. 62, pl. 51, 2; it shows a woman playing the kithara, an erote playing the flute, an erote playing the kithara, and a seated man draped in a himation. For related examples each showing a komos of erotes and psychai cf. P. Kranz, op. cit., nos. 2, 10, 54, 72, 76, 77, 103, 118, and 130.
