“Nero’s Tomb“ and the crisis of the third century: Roman sarcophagi as public and private monuments

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Death by Analogy: Identity Crises on a Roman Sarcophagus

“…On private visibility in a tomb setting, seeBirk 2012: 108-9; Borg 2013: 214-29; Koortbojian 2015: 286-7; Newby 2016: 228-72, 274. Some were publicly displayed, on which seeThomas 2012;Borg 2013: 213-14. See further Elsner 2011b Birk 2013: 34-9.…”