SculptureRoman2nd century CE
Fragment of Sarcophagus Relief
c. 160 CE
Dimensions
actual: 25.4 x 31.8 x 9 cm (10 x 12 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.)
Provenance
From the art market in Rome (1968), along with a companion fragment, now in a private collection in London, showing the heads of Persephone's sisters witnessing her abduction by Hades, assisted by Athena (Koch, 1976, fig. 22a).
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