FRAGMENT OF A SARCOPHAGUS SHOWING A BARBARIAN'S... Lot 395

FRAGMENT OF A SARCOPHAGUS SHOWING A BARBARIAN'S HEAD White marble; restoration to the nose Dim 16 x 16 cm Roman art, 2nd - 3rd century Probably belonging to a large sarcophagus, like the Portonaccio sarcophagus in the Portonaccio preserved in the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome. This wonderful relief represents a bearded man with long wavy hair and an intense look probably a prince or a barbarian nobleman who was the first to experience the marcoman wars. A roman marble relief of a Barbarian. Antonine period, ca. Second half of the 2nd century A.D. Probably belonging to a big sarcophagus, as the Portonaccio sarcophagus preserved in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. This marvelous relief depicts a bearded man with long wavy locks and intense gaze; probably a Barbarian prince or nobleman which experienced firsthand the Marcomannic Wars. Provenance Former French collection, acquired on the French market in the early 1980s