Sculpture - Sarcophagus representing a sea port, supposed to be the port of Carthage; also the head of Trajan, c. A.D. 200 (now in the Vatican Museum). Photographer: Unknown
Sculpture - Sarcophagus of the third century, representing a ship drawn by horses along a canal, now in the Colonna Garden. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
This subject is very rare, and believed even to be unique; it is supposed to be symbolical, signifying that the deceased was a merchant travelling by sea and land. The lady in a recumbent attitude, half-lying on the vessel, and bearing the cornucopia in her left hand, represents the annona.'
Sculpture - Sarcophagus representing an early chariot, with figures of men, horses, and dog, c. A.D. 200 (in the garden of the Vatican Museum). Photographer: Unknown
Sculpture - Sarcophagus of Peperino, of P. Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, B.C. 298, and inscriptions of the family of the Scipios at the back (now in the Vatican Museum). Photographer: Unknown
Sculptures - Sarcophagus of Publius Nonius Zethus, found at Ostia, with the emblems of trade of a miller, c. A.D. 200, and the statue of Esculapius on the one side and Vestalis on the other (now in the Vatican Museum). Photographer: Unknown
Vatican Museum (30) - Sarcophagus of Sextus Varius Marcellus, father of the Emperor Heliogabalus, with an inscription in Greek and Latin, found near Velletri, in 1764. Photographer: Unknown