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The Gate of Persecution at Ephesus. At the top of the arch, spolia of ancient sarcophagus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Ephesus, Gate of Persecution (Ephesus), Gates, Ionia, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi, Turkey

Instrument used to lift marble blocks, called the Ulivella and used during the Roman era.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Italy, Rome, Sarcophagi, Tools

Urn inscriptions from crematorium and columbarium of the Augustan era on the Appian Way, Rome.

Tags: Appian Way / Via Appia, Art and antiquities, Columbaria, Crematoria, Funerary monuments, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Urns

Inscriptions and sarcophagi fragments from crematorium and columbarium of the Augustan era on the Appian Way, Rome.

Tags: Appian Way / Via Appia, Art and antiquities, Columbaria, Crematoria, Funerary monuments, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Urns

Fragments of urns and sarcophagi from crematorium and columbarium of the Augustan era on the Appian Way, Rome.

Tags: Appian Way / Via Appia, Art and antiquities, Columbaria, Crematoria, Funerary monuments, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Urns

The porphyry sarcophagus of Saint Helena, today at the Vatican museum.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Mausoleum of Helena (Rome), Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Sarcophagus of Helena, Views

The so-called “Mausoleo a Piramide” on the Appian Way, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Mausoleo a piramide (Rome), Mausoleums, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi

Map of the Appian Way, Rome, with sections of monumental tombs.

Tags: Appian Way / Via Appia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Sculptures

Roman sarcophagi and urns found close to Villa Corsini, Rome.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi

Inscriptions and reliefs from the catacombs of Saint Sebastian, Rome.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Catacombs, Church of San Sebastiano fuori le mura (Rome), Churches, Early Christian Monuments, Funerary monuments, Italy, Rome, Sarcophagi

Decorative features from the sarcophagus of emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea (today at the Capitoline museum, Rome).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Sarcophagus of Severus Alexander

Decorative features from the sarcophagus of emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea (today at the Capitoline museum, Rome).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Sarcophagus of Severus Alexander

The sarcophagus of emperor Severus Alexander and his mother Julia Avita Mamaea, which is kept today at the Capitoline museum, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Sarcophagus of Severus Alexander, Tomb of Severus Alexander (Rome)

Section of mausoleum, considered to belong to the family of Alexander Severus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Tomb of Severus Alexander (Rome)

Plan of mausoleum, possibly of the family of emperor Severus Alexander.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi

Elevation and plan of Roman mausoleum, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Mausoleums, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi

Plan of the church and mausoleum of Santa Costanza, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Church of Santa Costanza (Rome), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Mausoleum of Santa Costanza, Mausoleums, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Rome, Sarcophagi

Murals from the columbarium tomb of the family of Lucius Arruntius, counsel to Augustus, near Porta Maggiore, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Mausoleums, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sarcophagi, Sepulcrum Arruntiorum (Tomb of the Arruntii family)

Inscriptions and funeral monuments from Telmessus and Myra, Asia Minor.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Inscriptions, Lycia, Lycian architecture, Lycian monuments, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Myra / Demre - Kale, Sarcophagi, Turkey

Ancient ruins and sarcophagi at Assos, Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Assos, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Mysia, Sarcophagi

1. Funerary stele seen by the author at the Kapodistrias Museum on Aegina island. 2. Clay figurine seen by the author at the same museum. 3. Decorative feature of sarcophagus seen by the author at the same museum.

Tags: Aegina, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Reliefs, Sarcophagi, Sculptures

Ancient Greek inscription from Delos island. 2, 3. Plan and section, possibly of the Prytaneion, Delos island. 4. Fragment of sarcophagus from Delos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Funerary monuments, Greece, Inscriptions, Plans and drawings, Prytaneion (Delos), Reliefs, Sarcophagi

Roman sarcophagus with reliefs at the court of the church of Hagios Dimitrios, Mystras.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Funerary monuments, Greece, Laconia, Mystras, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi

Details from the sarcophagus of Arvi or Pashley sarcophagus: marble sarcophagus with relief showing the triumphal return of Dionysus, discovered in Arvi, Heraklion province, and taken to Britain by Robert Pashley, today housed at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Arvi, Crete, Funerary monuments, Greece, Heraklion, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi

Details from the sarcophagus of Arvi or Pashley sarcophagus: marble sarcophagus with relief showing the triumphal return of Dionysus, discovered in Arvi, Heraklion province, and taken to Britain by Robert Pashley, today housed at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Arvi, Crete, Funerary monuments, Greece, Heraklion, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi

Sarcophagus of Arvi or Pashley sarcophagus: Marble sarcophagus with relief showing the triumphal return of Dionysus, discovered in Arvi, Heraklion province, and taken to Britain by Robert Pashley, today housed at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Arvi, Crete, Funerary monuments, Greece, Heraklion, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi

21, 22. Ancient Greek inscriptions from Tithorea (Velitsa) in Phhiotis. 23. Ancient Greek inscription from the castle of Amphicleia (Dadi). 24. Ancient Greek inscription on rock near the theatre of Glafyra (older Kapourna) near Volos. 25. Inscription from Glafyra. 26. Inscription from sarcophagus at Kapourna. 27. Inscription from church at Glafyra.

Tags: Amphicleia, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Churches, Funerary monuments, Glafyra, Greece, Inscriptions, Phthiotis, Sarcophagi, Thessaly, Tithorea / Velitsa

Inscription from Roman sarcophagus supposed to be the tomb of Saint Luke the Evangelist, at the church of Hagios Loukas, Thebes.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Churches, Funerary monuments, Greece, Hagios Loukas (Thebes), Inscriptions, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi, Thebes (Greece), Tomb of Saint Luke the Evangelist (Thebes)

Roman sarcophagus at the streetlet before the six Loggias (galleries leading to the castle of Sifnos).

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Castle of Sifnos, Cyclades, Funerary monuments, Greece, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi, Sifnos

29. Fire-extinguishing vehicle in Antwerp, Belgium. 30. View of the Doric columns of the Antwerp City Hall. 31. Outline of the fortifications of the city walls. 32. Sarcophagus of a cardinal at Liége.

Tags: Antwerp, Architecture and built environment, Belgium, Fires, Funerary monuments, Liège, Machines and devices, Mechanisms, Priests, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Town Hall of Antwerp, Walls

1. The mausoleum of Manuel I of Portugal at the Convent of the Order of Christ, Tomar, Portugal. 2. The sarcophagus of Manuel I of Portugal. 3. Water-douching tool used for the cleaning of cannons. 4. Banana tree.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Banana trees, Cannons, Convent of the Order of Christ / Convento de Cristo (Tomar), Kings, Manuel I of Portugal, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Monasteries, Natural environment, Plants, Portugal, Religious practices, Sarcophagi, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Tomar, Weapons

Inscription from a Roman sarcophagus of Thebes. The inscription had already been published by Wheler and Spon; however, Clarke affirms that he is the first to offer a correct transcription.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Inscriptions, Roman sarcophagi, Sarcophagi, Thebes (Greece)

Roman sarcophagus of a man named Nedymus, Thebes.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Inscriptions, Roman sarcophagi, Sarcophagi, Thebes (Greece)

Sarcophagus from Asiatic Sarmatia (historical region west of the Caspian sea), used as a cistern, at the surroundings of Yeni Kale fortress in Crimea.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Castles and fortresses, Caucasus, Crimea, Fountains / Springs, Funerary monuments, Russia, Sarcophagi, Sarmatia, Scythian monuments, Ukraine, Yenikale Fortress / Yenikale Hisarı (Crimea)

Early Christian ruins in Madenşehri, Binbirkilisse area, Mount Karadag.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Binbirkilisse, Churches, Funerary monuments, Madenşehri, Mount Karadag, Mountains, Natural environment, Sarcophagi, Turkey, Views

Roman sarcophagus bearing a relief of human figures from Aphrodisias in Caria.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Caria, Funerary monuments, Geyre / anc. Aphrodisias, Reliefs, Roman antiquities, Sarcophagi, Turkey

View of the necropolis of Hierapolis. Traveller reading an inscription on a funerary monument.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Denizli, Funerary monuments, Human types, Natural environment, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Hierapolis, Pamukkale / anc. Hierapolis, Sarcophagi, Seven Churches of Asia Minor, Travel, Turkey, Views

Sarcophagi and other fragments of ancient monuments near a cascade at Pamukkale.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Denizli, Funerary monuments, Lakes, Natural environment, Pamukkale / anc. Hierapolis, Sarcophagi, Seven Churches of Asia Minor, Turkey, Views, Waterfalls

Funerary monuments in the necropolis of Hierapolis.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Denizli, Funerary monuments, Inscriptions, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Hierapolis, Pamukkale / anc. Hierapolis, Sarcophagi, Seven Churches of Asia Minor, Turkey, Walls

Peasant using the cover of an ancient sarcophagus as a drinking trough, outside Yalvaç, which is built next to the site of Antioch of Pisidia.

Tags: Agricultural tasks, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Caramania, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Funerary monuments, Human types, Natural environment, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Views, Wells, Yalvaç / anc. Antioch of Pisidia

General view of Iznik (Nicaea).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Funerary monuments, Human types, Iznik / gr. Nicaea, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi, Sarcophagus of Nicaea, Turkey, Views

The sarcophagus of Nicaea, on the outskirts of the city.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Funerary monuments, Human types, Iznik / gr. Nicaea, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Pack animals, Sarcophagi, Sarcophagus of Nicaea, Turkey, Views

Entrance to an Armenian church in Izmir.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Armenian churches, Asia Minor, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Priests, Religious practices, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Views

A Mufti reading prayers at a Sultan's sarcophagus (türbe).

Tags: Books, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Mausoleums, Muftis, Portraits, Quran, Religious practices, Sarcophagi, Shoes and footwear, Thrace, Turkey

Ancient column capital and sarcophagus from Monreale Cathedral, Sicily.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Cathedral of Monreale (Sicily), Funerary monuments, Italy, Monreale, Reliefs, Sarcophagi, Sicily, Southern Italy

Ancient sarcophagi from Sicily.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Italy, Reliefs, Sarcophagi, Sicily, Southern Italy

A sarcophagus from the Tombs of the Kings complex outside Jerusalem.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Horses, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Reliefs, Religious practices, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Tombs of the Kings (Jerusalem), Women

Title page. Ornamented sarcophagus at Epidaurus.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Epidaurus, Funerary monuments, Greece, Nemea, Peloponnese, Sarcophagi, Title page

Lycian sarcophag at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Sarcophagi, Turkey, Views

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