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Roman Marble Sarcophagus Fragment Depicting Endymion ca. 2nd-3rd Century AD. A seated youthful shepherd faces right, sleeping in a cave. In Greek mythology, Endymion is a handsome shepherd-price who is granted immortality through eternal slumber and visited nightly by the moon-goddess Selene. Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, Antiquities, 5 October 2000, lot 214. Royal Athena Galleries, New York, 2004. Property from a Midwest Private Collection. L. 25 1/2" (65 cm).