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## Roman Sculptures Most Roman sculptures are made of monumental terra-cotta. They did not attempt to compete with the free-standing Greek works of history or mythology, but rather they produced reliefs in the Great Roman triumphal columns with continuous narrative reliefs around. ### The Portona...

## Roman Sculptures Most Roman sculptures are made of monumental terra-cotta. They did not attempt to compete with the free-standing Greek works of history or mythology, but rather they produced reliefs in the Great Roman triumphal columns with continuous narrative reliefs around. ### The Portonacio Sarcophagus between 180-190 BCE * **Image:** From *Treasures of the World*, 1961 CCP Library * **Used:** For the burial of Roman General involved in the campaign of Marcus Aurellius * **Sarx:** =tlesn * **Phagein:** = to eat * **The best-known and most elaborate of all sarcophagus (It is a box-like funeral receptacle for a dead body. Comes from a Greek word sarx meaning "flesh" and phagein meaning "to eat"):** * Depicts battle scenes between Romans and Germans * Carved in marble