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Italy (Rome)
Columnar Sarcophagus with the Labours of Hercules (Front Panel)
2355
Roman Imperial Period (High Empire / Late 2nd Century CE).
The principal front chest panel of an imported Asian columnar sarcophagus (sarcofago a colonne), featuring a monumental architectural aedicular colonnade framing sequential heroic reliefs depicting the Labours of Hercules.
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