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Lenos (vat-shaped) sarcophagus
Lenos (vat-shaped) sarcophagus

Lenos (vat-shaped) sarcophagus

A.D. 260–270
Medium/TechniqueMarble, from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
DimensionsOverall: 77.5 × 208 × 55.9 cm (30 1/2 × 81 7/8 × 22 in.)
Case (Rolling steel pedestal with wooden skirts): 77.5 x 228.6 x 78.1 cm (30 1/2 x 90 x 30 3/4 in.)
Credit LineArthur Tracy Cabot Fund
Accession number1975.359
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTomb equipment
ProvenanceBy about 1969: with Jeannette Brun, Dufourstrasse 119, Zurich 8008, Switzerland (purchased by Jeannette Brun from M. Frey, Geneva, who in turn had purchased it from an English collection about 40 years previously; presumably from Italy); purchased by MFA from Jeannette Brun, September 10, 1975
Head of a bearded man
Head of a bearded man
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
Portrait of a philosopher or official
Portrait of a philosopher or official
5th century
Fragment of a Muse sarcophagus
Fragment of a Muse sarcophagus
about mid-3rd century A.D.
Head of Aphrodite of the Capitoline type
Head of Aphrodite of the Capitoline type
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
Head of Aphrodite
Head of Aphrodite
about A.D. 138–192
Torso of a young god or athlete
Torso of a young god or athlete
1st century A.D.
Funerary marker in the form of an oil flask (lekythos)
Funerary marker in the form of an oil flask (lekythos)
c. 390 B.C.
Image Not Available for Table (cartibulum)
Table (cartibulum)
before A.D. 62
Statue of Athena Parthenos (the Virgin Goddess)
Statue of Athena Parthenos (the Virgin Goddess)
2nd or 3rd century A.D.
A maenad holding a wine pitcher and Dionysos with panther skin
A maenad holding a wine pitcher and Dionysos with panther skin
about A.D. 120
Grave stele of a mounted warrior
Grave stele of a mounted warrior
about 490–480 B.C.
Statue of Aphrodite riding on a goose
Statue of Aphrodite riding on a goose
about 4th century B.C.