Angela
Elite member
- Messages
- 21,823
- Reaction score
- 12,329
- Points
- 113
- Ethnic group
- Italian
It's also worth 300,000 British pounds.
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Apparently it was so dirt encrusted that no much could be seen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-sarcophagus-discovered-Blenheim-Palace.html
"The historic marble coffin has been exposed to the elements for the last century and used as an oversized planter to grow tulips in in the rock garden of Sir Winston Churchill's birthplace in Oxfordshire.And for 100 years before that the 1,800 year old sarcophagus was used as a makeshift water feature by the fifth Duke of Marlborough who obtained it in the 19th century."
"Its splendid carvings depict a drunken Dionysus, the god of wine, leaning on an equally inebriated woodland god known as 'satyr'.
The pair are flanked by party revelers including Hercules and Ariadne as well as two large lion heads.
The marble section weighs nearly 900lbs."
"Mr Schwinge, of Duke's Auctioneers of Dorchester, Dorset, said: 'The quality of this sarcophagus panel suggests it was made in Rome for a high status member of the patrician elite.
'The overall form and Dionysian carving suggest a date late in the late 2nd century and the lion's masks are a clear expression of Roman Imperial power."
See:
Apparently it was so dirt encrusted that no much could be seen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-sarcophagus-discovered-Blenheim-Palace.html
"The historic marble coffin has been exposed to the elements for the last century and used as an oversized planter to grow tulips in in the rock garden of Sir Winston Churchill's birthplace in Oxfordshire.And for 100 years before that the 1,800 year old sarcophagus was used as a makeshift water feature by the fifth Duke of Marlborough who obtained it in the 19th century."
"Its splendid carvings depict a drunken Dionysus, the god of wine, leaning on an equally inebriated woodland god known as 'satyr'.
The pair are flanked by party revelers including Hercules and Ariadne as well as two large lion heads.
The marble section weighs nearly 900lbs."
"Mr Schwinge, of Duke's Auctioneers of Dorchester, Dorset, said: 'The quality of this sarcophagus panel suggests it was made in Rome for a high status member of the patrician elite.
'The overall form and Dionysian carving suggest a date late in the late 2nd century and the lion's masks are a clear expression of Roman Imperial power."