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Italy (Rome)
Columnar Sarcophagus with Apollo and the Muses (Back Panel)
2354
Roman Imperial Period (Severan Dynasty / High-to-Late Empire).
The back panel of an imported Asian columnar sarcophagus (sarcofago a colonne), featuring an architectural aedicular facade populated by five of the nine Muses.
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