carved in high relief with a scene from a Dionysiac procession, led by a Psyche holding a cymbal, her drapery windblown, followed by an Erote clad in a chlamys and holding a lantern, and followed in turn by an Erote collapsed in the arms of his companions and holding a wreath.

Michele Zoppo, Via Coronari, 17/18, Rome, circa 1971
Sotheby's, London, April 4th, 1977, no. 197, illus.
New York private collection
Sotheby's, New York, June 10th -11th, 1983, no. 125, illus.
Sotheby's, New Y♐ork, November 24th, 1♋986, no. 108, illus.

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome, neg. nos. 71.1128 and 71.1139
Luisa Musso, in Museo Nazionale Romano. Vol. I,10 Magazzini. I sarcofagi, part 2, Rome, 1988, p. 90 (no. 107)
Peter Kranz, Die stadtrömischen Eroten-Sarkophage, Erster Faszikel: Dionysische Themen (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, 5,2), Berlin, 1995, pp. 24, 🔯58, 65, 68, 𒐪113, esp. 147, no. 61, pl. 51, 1

Repaired from five or six fragments and with minor restoration along some of breaks.
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For another fragment from the same sarcophagus, also on the art market in Rome in 1971, see P. Kranz, op. cit., no. 62, pl. 51, 2; it shows a woman playing the kithara, an erote playing the flute, an erote playing the kithara, and a seated man draped in a himation. For related examples each showing a komos of erotes and psychai cf. P. Kranz, op. cit., nos. 2, 10, 54, 72, 76, 77, 103, 118, and 130.