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English: Sarcophagus with scenes from the life of Achilles.
From the necropolis of Tyre, 2nd century AD, National Museum of Beirut, Lebanon.
Front: Achilles drags the body of Hector and Priam begs Achilles to give him the body of his son.
Lid: Frieze of bull heads and garlands.
Deutsch: Achillsarkophag, attisch, um 180 n. Chr. (Koch) bzw. um 175–200 n. Chr. (Rogge), aus Tyros, in Beirut, Nationalmuseum.

Vorderseite: Die Lösung Hektors. Nach der Schleifung von Hektors Leichnam (links am Boden liegend) erbittet Priamos (rechts in Trauerkleidung kniend) von Achill den Leichnam, um ihn bestatten zu können.
Rechte Schmalseite: Ein Krieger tötet einen gefangenen Trojaner (in orientalischem Gewand). Rechts sitzt Neoptolemos.

  • Guntram Koch, Der Import kaiserzeitlicher Sarkophage in den römischen Provinzen Syria, Palaestina und Arabia, in: Bonner Jahrbücher, Band 189, 1989, S. 161–211, insb. S. 194 oben.
  • Sabine Rogge, Die attischen Sarkophage: Achill und Hippolytos. Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, Band IX 1.1 (1995) Kat. 7.
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