differing views about how the imagery on sarcophagi should be read, one commonly acknowledged goal in interpreting Greek myths on Romansarcophagi is to identify the way Romans understood the myths in their own [...] group of Romansarcophagi depicting the triumphal return of Dionysos from India is particularly useful for this purpose, because the Roman version of the myth is intertwined with a fundamentally Roman institution [...] with pushing Roman power to the limits of the inhabited world. We have seen this equation of triumphal success with Roman power on the Gemma Augustea, but we can also see it on the sarcophagi in the figure

Bosporan sarcophagi and the marble sarcophagi from Rome share death and flight as a central idea. However, the Romansarcophagi tell a narrative of death with clear indications of a mythological scene [...] be introduced. They belong to sarcophagi contemporary with the 2 nd century Roman ones but which originate in the Bosporan kingdom, a region outside the Imperium Romanum . It shall be argued that the [...] compare them with the few roughly contemporary Romansarcophagi which take the myth of the Niobids as a central theme. [31] On the marble sarcophagi from Rome the myth is usually restricted to the

RomanSarcophagi in their Original Context, Rome and Vicinity von Dr. Katharina Meinecke veröffentlicht am 16.10.2008 [1] Previous [...] of the placement of sarcophagi inside the burial chambers. In the second part, I will give a brief introduction to the funerary cult practices within the tombs. Most sarcophagi that have been found [...] of sarcophagi in Rome in around 120 A.D., most burial chambers were rather spacious and lacked permanent architectural installations such as niches or masonry bases for the set-up of the sarcophagi. At

cities, on sarcophagi decorated with mythological imagery and often only considering the epigraphical remains excluding an analysis of the funerary structures. Recently a lot of new studies on roman imperial [...] this heterogeneous landscape sure information about the roman occupation of the territory can be understood only in contexts belonging to roman monumental tombs with their inscriptions, their architectural [...] Sepulcrorum Ambitione Social and religious messages evoked through Roman Tomb Architecture in rural Cilicia Campestris veröffentlicht am 15.10.2008