Sarcophagus: Achilles in the house of King Lycomedes: Three-quarter view of left side and front
- Creator:
- unknown (Ancient Roman)
- Published/Created:
- ca. 240
- Physical Description:
- 1.20 m (height) x 2.89 m (width)
- Date Depicted:
- 2009
8000 BC - 499 AD - Materials:
- marble
- Notes:
- Formerly from the Borghese Collection, Rome, originally on the facade of the Villa Borghese. (It was cut in four panels and embedded on the west and south facades.) In 1807, Napoleon I bought the collection for the Louvre from his brother-in-law, Prince Camillo Borghese (1775–1832). The work was reconstructed as a sarcophagus at the Louvre. Believed to have been found in Rome, but created in Athens. The front scene "The Anger of Achilles" shows Lycomedes sitting on the left (looking at Ulysses who wears a pilos cap), Agammenon sitting on the right and Achilles holding a shield in the center, making the choice to go to war.
- Variant Titles:
- Sarcophage: Achille chez le roi Lycomède
- Topics:
- Sculpture -- Roman -- (YVRC)
- Culture:
- Roman
- Accession Number:
- 7A3-R-ML-S-A2
- Genre:
- containers: coffins: sarcophagi (AAT)
sculpture (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
Tools, Equipment & Instruments - Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- death or burial; funerary art; literary or legendary; military or war; mythology (Classical); Trojan War; Homer furnishings; containers; funerary containers; coffins; sarcophagi (coffins); visual works; sculpture (visual work); reliefs (sculptures)
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Six
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2009 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Original Repository:
- Paris, France: Musée du Louvre
- Local Record Number:
- 4125
- OID:
- 10079542
- PID:
- digcoll:1821126