Relief of a Herdsman

Description This relief decorated the short end of a sarcophagus (stone coffin). It shows a herdsman accompanied by his dog, a sheep, and a goat. The long side of the sarcophagus, now lost, would have depicted the Greek myth of Endymion, a handsome shepherd with whom the moon-goddess Selene fell in love. She granted him eternal sleep and youth and visited him at night. The herdsman depicted here mourns his friend's seeming death.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/01/1959	Treatment	cleaned
7/20/1970	Treatment	cleaned
1/12/1978	Treatment	cleaned
1/01/1992	Technical Report	x-ray diffraction; other
6/26/2001	Treatment	cleaned; other

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [marble no. 63], by 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902