Living Poets

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'''Image''': Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. no. 6736

'''Object Description''': A marble relief shows an elderly man wearing a ''himation'' (mantle).  He has a long beard, rustic staff, and sits next to a ''capsis'' (scroll-case), on which rests a bundle of scrolls.  Behind the figure is a curtain, and at his feet is a sheep.  The relief has been dated stylistically to the late second century CE and was once part of a sarcophagus.

'''Object Archaeology''': Unknown.  Once part of the Farnese Collection.

'''Inscriptions''': None.

'''Dimensions''': height 60 cm, width 47cm.

'''Examples in major collections''':

* Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. no. 6736. Sarcophagus relief.
* Rome, Musei Capitolini inv. 523, Stanza dei Filosofi no. 14. Heavily restored head that closely resembles that of Naples sarcophagus.
* Memphis, Egypt, figure no. 4 (of 11) in the ''exhedra'' of the Sarapieion ''dromos''.  A highly fragmentary figure that resembles the Naples relief.

== Bibliography ==

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* Lauer, J. P. and Picard, C. 1955. ''Les Statues Ptolémaïques du Sarapieion de Memphis.'' Paris: 96-108.
* Richter, G. M. A. 1965. ''The Portraits of the Greeks.'' London: 57.
* Schefold, K. 1997. ''Die Bildnisse der antiken Dichter, Redner und Denker.'' Basel: 262-263.
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