Plaque de couvercle d'un sarcophage antique de Saint-Raphaël (Var)

Abstract

Two white marble fragments stored in the reserved section of the Muséums of Frejus and Saint-Raphaël (Var, France) are part of the same sarcophagus lid frontal flag. These fragments seem closely related to the tomb of a patrician family which mau- soleum could be located in the basement of the actual church of Saint-Raphaël. The iconography relays on roman family and funerary traditions and represents a couple 's effigy. This sarcophagus relief was probably produced in a local or regional workshop which, if remoted from large fabrication centers, remained opened to new items spreaded between areas. The sculptor, of austere and common skills, performed this work during the second quarter or the middle of IVth century.