Illustration
This fragment from the upper right corner of a sarcophagus portrays the head of a male Aethiopian (African) youth and a maenad. The piece dates to around the early 3rd Century CE and is a part of the Roman Sarcophagi Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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