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Röll, 1997).</P>","citation":"<P>Gutram Koch, \"Zu einigen Sarkophagen vorkonstantinischer Zeit in Rom,\" in Ulrike Lang and Reiner Sörries, eds., <EM>Vom Orient bis an den Rhein:&nbsp;Begegnungen mit der Christlichen Archäologie: Peter Poscharsky zum 65.</EM>&nbsp;<EM>Geburtstag</EM>, (Dettelbach: J.H. Röll, 1997).</P>, p. 191-206","date":1997,"id":2071,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/38990172"},{"boilertext":"Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann, Thilo Ulbert, Jutta Dresken-Wiland, et. al.,&nbsp;eds., <EM>Repertorium der christlich-antiken Sarkophage, </EM>(Wiesbaden; Mainz am Rhein, 1967-2003?).","citation":"Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann, Thilo Ulbert, Jutta Dresken-Wiland, et. al.,&nbsp;eds., <EM>Repertorium der christlich-antiken Sarkophage, </EM>(Wiesbaden; Mainz am Rhein, 1967-2003?)., p. 1; pl. 1","date":1967,"id":2072,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/715624036"},{"boilertext":"J. Michael Padgett, ed., <em>Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(Princeton, NJ:&nbsp;Art Museum, Princeton University, &nbsp;2001).","citation":"J. Michael Padgett, ed., <em>Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(Princeton, NJ:&nbsp;Art Museum, Princeton University, &nbsp;2001)., p. 165-167; cat. no. 47","date":2001,"id":2140,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/47868668"},{"boilertext":"<P>Natalie B. Kampen, E. Marlow, and R.M. Molholt, <EM>What is Man?: changing images of masculinity in Late Antique art</EM>,&nbsp;(Portland, OR: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College,&nbsp;2002).</P>","citation":"<P>Natalie B. Kampen, E. Marlow, and R.M. Molholt, <EM>What is Man?: changing images of masculinity in Late Antique art</EM>,&nbsp;(Portland, OR: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College,&nbsp;2002).</P>","date":2002,"id":2217,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/50329316"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1994,\" <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </i>54, no. 1 (1995): p. 40-79.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1994,\" <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </i>54, no. 1 (1995): p. 40-79., p. 74; p. 71 (illus.)","date":1995,"id":569,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774717"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199316,"term":"Ancient Mediterranean Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1-500","dateend":299,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Fragmentary Christian sarcophagus with Jonah and the sea monster","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"y1994-1","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Purchased from Robert Hecht Jr. and Atlantis Antiquities in 1994.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"This relief is broken from a sarcophagus of the so-called lenos type, with rounded ends. In the scene to the right of the uninscribed centraltabula, the prophet Jonah is shown sleeping beneath a gourd tree after being cast up by the great fish in whose belly he had lain for three days. The subject was popular in Early Christian art as symbolizing the Resurrection, an analogy drawn by Jesus himself (Matthew 12:40). As usual in this period, the “fish” is represented as a <EM><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>ketos</SPAN></EM>, a sea monster with a serpentine body, fins, and a wolfish head, of which only the jaw remains. To the right of Jonah, next to a recumbent ram, are the legs of a draped woman, possibly an orant, with her arms raised and spread in prayer. The relief on the missing left half of the sarcophagus likely showed Jonah being thrown overboard by the sailors and swallowed by the <EM><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\",sans-serif'>ketos</SPAN></EM>. <?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p>","remarks":"EarlyChristianandByzantineFeb2010.pdf"}],"datebegin":271,"sortnumber":"1994    1y","published_date":"2026-04-25 02:00:19.313175","objectid":33917,"dimensions":"35.0 x 45.5 x 115.0 cm (13 3/4 x 17 15/16 x 45 1/4 in.)","on_view":false}