The Camposanto Monumentale cemetary in Pisa (page 23/32)

Marine Sarcophagus 2

Showing also the front. [more...]

Old words 1

A fragment of an engraving made some six hundred years before the hirja, from around the time of Jesus (a Palestinian Jew). [more...]

Old words 2: closeup

Showing the carved Roman letters more clearly.

Old words 3

The letters are still beautiful after two thousand years but the narrative structure has not survived.

Old words 4

A view from further away, to reduce lens distortion.

Marine Sarcophagus 3

The bust of the deceased.

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rectangular sarcophagus (mid 3^rd century a.d.). on the front shell like clipeus with bust of the deceased - a man - held by two tritons, around it courting of marine gods. on the flanks marine panther and marine gryphon both crouched. [more...]

Marine Sarcophagus 4

rectangular sarcophagus (mid 3^rd century a.d.). on the front shell like clipeus with bust of the deceased - a man - held by two tritons, around it courting of marine gods. on the flanks marine panther and marine gryphon both crouched. [more...]

A Roman child’s last resting-place 1

rectangular sarcophagus for the burial of a child (end of 2^nd – beginning of 3^rd century a.d.). on the front chariotters [charioteers] racing in the circus; on the flanks winged putti on galloping horses. [more...]

A Roman child’s last resting-place 2

A closer view.

Bacchic Scene Sarcophagus 1

The naked man is taking away the woman’s veil (they are Roman gods) and on the front the woman is stripping the man, all very decorous and suitable for a sarcophagus. Or possibly not. [more...]

Bacchic Scene Sarcophagus 2

Seen from below, more imposing.