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Sarcophagus of Helena. The Sarcophagus of Helena is the red porphyry coffin in which Saint Helena, the mother of emperor Constantine the Great, was buried (died 329).The coffin, deprived of its contents for centuries, was removed from the Mausoleum of Helena at Tor Pignatarra, just outside the walled city of Rome.
This style of sarcophagus would cease to be used in Rome by the end of the fourth century, and this sarcophagus of Constantia is a prime example of the style. [28] The sarcophagus is massive with the chest measuring 128 cm or 4 ft 2 3 ⁄ 8 in high, 233 cm or 7 ft 7 1 ⁄ 2 in long, and 157 cm or 5 ft 1 3 ⁄ 4 in wide. [5]
Sarcophagus of Constantina, sculpted around AD 340. Formerly in the Mausoleo di Santa Costanza, part of the complex of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura in Rome, it is now on display at the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican City. Some time before mid 320s, Constantina was born to the emperor Constantine and empress Fausta.
Her sarcophagus is on display in the Pio-Clementine Vatican Museum, next to the sarcophagus of her granddaughter Constantina (Saint Constance). However, in 1154 her remains were replaced in the sarcophagus with the remains of Pope Anastasius IV, and Helena's remains were moved to Santa Maria in Ara Coeli. [45]
It was built by the Roman emperor Constantine I between 326 and 330, originally as a tomb for himself, as indicated by his sarcophagus found there, but later assigned to his mother Helena who died in 330. Access to the mausoleum and the catacombs is to the west of the church of Santi Marcellino e Pietro ad Duas Lauros.
Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...
A sarcophagus discovered in 2009 in the burial chamber of an Egyptian high priest was originally from the tomb of pharaoh Ramesses II, according to a new study.
An image from a National Library of France BnF Grec 1208 (12th century) [1] believed to be a representation of the Church of the Holy Apostles. The Church of the Holy Apostles (Greek: Ἅγιοι Ἀπόστολοι, Agioi Apostoloi; Turkish: Havariyyun Kilisesi), also known as the Imperial Polyandrion (imperial cemetery), was a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox church in Constantinople, capital of ...