EARLY CHRISTIAN SCULPTOR, Italian
(active around 349 in Rome)

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (detail)

349
Marble
Museo Tresoro, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican

The detail shows a scene from the front of the sarcophagus: Christ's Entry to Jerusalem on a Donkey. This is one of the earliest representations of the scene.




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