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A carved marble box sits in the middle of the antiquities hall at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, roped off, lit from above, with a bust on a pedestal keeping it company. Horses rear across the front panel. Figures fall under them. It reads as sculpture, which is exactly …
The Medea Sarcophagus in Berlin’s Altes Museum is 227 centimeters long and 65 centimeters high, carved from white marble in Rome around 140–150 AD, …
The Romans buried their dead outside the city. This was law and custom simultaneously — the Twelve Tables prohibited burial within the city limits, …
In a case in the Altes Museum in Berlin, ten painted wooden panels are arranged across two shelves: five on the upper row, five below. They show men, …
