The Musee du Louvre's own collections database record for the Sarcophagus of the Muses, a Roman Imperial sarcophagus in Pentelic marble, circa 150 to 160 CE, inventory Ma 475, describing its front panel of the nine Muses each identified by attribute, its lid of a Dionysian banquet with satyrs and maenads, and its side panels of Socrates, Homer, Hesiod and Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Tier one: the holding institution's own primary collections database, individually naming all nine figures by attribute, corroborated independently by a second descriptive essay that names the same nine figures with matching attributes. Citation
PublisherMusee du Louvre
URLhttps://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010278285
Source TypeMuseum
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This source names Hesiod directly: "its side panels of Socrates, Homer, Hesiod and Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses."
This source names Homer directly: "and its side panels of Socrates, Homer, Hesiod and Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses."
This source names Mnemosyne directly: "panels of Socrates, Homer, Hesiod and Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses."
This source names Mnemosyne directly: "panels of Socrates, Homer, Hesiod and Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses."
This source names Socrates directly: "and maenads, and its side panels of Socrates, Homer, Hesiod and Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses."
This source names The Nine Muses directly: "Ma 475, describing its front panel of the nine Muses each identified by attribute, its lid of a Dionysian banquet with satyrs and maenads, and its side panels of Socrates, Homer, Hesiod and..."
Claims Backed By This Source (37 claims)
This source backs 37 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 22 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 26 claims: 9 well-attested, 16 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 11 claims: 5 well-attested, 6 holds.
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