Sculpture, Diocesan Museum, Cathedral, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Apollo and the 9 muses, high relief sculpture, detail from Roman sarcophagus, 2nd century AD, marble, in the Diocesan Museum in Tarragona Cathedral, or Catedral de Santa Maria, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The figures are (left-right)Thalia with a mask, Apollo, Melpomene with a mask, Erato playing the zither. The sculpture was found in 1935 in the Corpus Christi chapel, reused as a sepulchral slab. The city was formerly an important fortified Roman colony named Tarraco. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
50385514
Media ID
50385514
Size
7948px x 5156px
(16.6MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2026
