A Marble Sarcophagus Lid Fragment with Gorgoneion: Viminacium Spoil in Nimnik Monastery

Abstract

A fragment of a Roman marble monument with a relief of the head of Medusa was incorporated as spolia into the church of St. Nicholas in the monastery of Nimnik. In paper indicates the possibility that the spoil was part of the lid of a sarcophagus. The characteristics of this presumed sarcophagus are reviewed, as well as analogies, the workshops in which it might have created, and its importance in relation to other marble sarcophagi from Viminacium, preserved today.