Figures
0.1Stele of the Seikilos epitaph. Photo © The National Museum of Denmark, Inv. 14897/photographer: John Lee. License type: CC-BY-SA.
0.2Transcription of musical notation of the Seikilos epitaph. Transcribed into modern notation by D’Angour (2018) 69.
1.1Statue of ‘Dionysus Sardanapallus’. Vatican Museum, Rome, Sala della Biga, Inv. 2363. Photo Copyright © Governorate of the Vatican City State – Directorate of the Vatican Museums.
4.1(a, b, c)Silver cup with skeletons (Cup A). Cup A from the Boscoreale treasure, Paris, Louvre Bj 1923. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/photographer: Hervé Lewandowski.
4.2(a, b, c)Silver cup with skeletons (Cup B). Cup B from the Boscoreale treasure, Paris, Louvre Bj 1924. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/photographer: Hervé Lewandowski.
4.3Berlin Gem with shepherd and skull. AGD ii Berlin 138, no. 349, table 64. Photo © Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Inv. FG 417/photographer: Isolde Luckert.
4.4Munich Gem with shepherd and skull. AGD i.2 Munich 33, no. 729, table 84 (= Munich, Staatliche Münzsammlung, Inv. A 1700). Photograph taken from imprint. Photo © München, Staatliche Münzsammlung/photographer: Nicolai Kästner.
4.5(a)Copenhagen Gem with shepherd and skull. Photo © Thorvaldsens Museum, inv. no. I1204/photographer: Jakob Faurvig. Shepherd and Butterfly on a Skull. Roman Republican ringstone, 100–30 bc. Carnelian, gold (modern gold ring). 1.2 x 0.9 cm.
4.5(b)Copenhagen Gem with shepherd and skull (imprint). Photograph taken from imprint. Photo © Thorvaldsens Museum, inv. no. I1204/photographer: Jakob Faurvig. Shepherd and Butterfly on a Skull. Roman Republican ringstone, 100–30 bc. Carnelian, gold (modern gold ring). 1.2 x 0.9 cm.
4.6Lost gem with skull, table, and inscription. Gori (1726–43) iii, appendix 21, no. 25 (Cambridge University Library classmark Mm.4.76–78); CIG 7298 = Kaibel 1129. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
4.7Lost gem with skeleton. Venuti and Boriani (1736) table 80. Photo © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
4.8Gem with image of lovers and inscription. Photo © Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. Inv. GS-01172/photographer: Robbert Jan Looman.