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Front of a marble sarcophagus with facing peacocks
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Front of an Early Byzantine marble sarcophagus, probably of Ravennate production, reused as an altar front. The relief decoration features a Christogram in a clipeus in the middle, flanked by two symmetrical peacocks and two blooming trees (or branches). Two stylized semi-columns with Corinthian capitals at the corners.
Title: Front of a marble sarcophagus with facing peacocks
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Front of an Early Byzantine marble sarcophagus, probably of Ravennate production, reused as an altar front.
The relief decoration features a Christogram in a clipeus in the middle, flanked by two symmetrical peacocks and two blooming trees (or branches).
Two stylized semi-columns with Corinthian capitals at the corners.
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