Category:Sarcophagus from Myrmekion

English: Ancient Roman relief sarcophagus from an Attic workshop, dating from the last quarter of the 2^nd century AD (= 175–200). – In 1834, the sarcophagus was found at Myrmekion (near Kerch). – St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum, accession number П 1834.110.
It is severely fragmented but has considerable historic significance, being the only Attic sarcophagus that was imported to the region north of the Black Sea in antiquity.
Select bibliography:

• Carl Robert: Mythologische Cyklen (= Die antiken Sarkophag-Reliefs. Vol. 2). G. Grote’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1890, pp. 26–29 no. 21, plates VIII–IX (in German, online).
• Irina I. Saverkina: Römische Sarkophage in der Ermitage. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1979, pp. 17 ss., no. 2, plates 6–9 (in German; this is the museum’s standard publication of its ancient Roman sarcophagi).
• Sabine Rogge: Die attischen Sarkophage. Erster Faszikel: Achill und Hippolytos (= Bernard Andreae, Guntram Koch [ed.]: Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs. Vol. 9.1.1). Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7861-1852-3, pp. 139–140, no. 29, plates 27–29 etc. (in German).

For further bibliography (mostly in Russian), see the large Russian article on this sarcophagus: Мирмекийский саркофаг.