Subject
Photographic plates, by an unknown author, showing details of the marble sarcophagus with reliefs of the Triumph of Bacchus in India, found within the underground burial chamber of the Tomb of the Valeri on Via Latina. The photograph composes images of the slabs showing details of the extreme right front, left side and back of the coffin.
Recovered during excavations by Lorenzo Fortunati in 1858, the sarcophagus is now housed in the Gregorian Profano Museum of the Vatican Museums.
Accession number, photograph: MVF.VI.5.18 (extreme right front detail); MVF.VI.5.15 (left side); MVF.VI.5.14 (back)
Accession number, object: MV.10428.0.0
Negative
Glass plate, silver bromide gelatine
2 x 24 cm
Ante 3.2.1963
Placement
Vatican Museums. Pinacoteca ➔ 3rd floor ➔ corridors
Credits
Vatican Museum Archives
Vatican Museum Archives
Vatican Museum Archives
