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Historical Archive: People other than rulers, ecclesiastics, saints, and personifications 4th through 7th centuries funerary stela of Herakela (age 60) and Ares (age 52), limestone and paint, 2nd-early 4th c. Terenouthis (Egypt), KM 0000.02.1179. For details see Kelsey. grave stone of the daughter of the standard-bearer Crescens with funeral banquet, from Kirkby Thore (Eng.), 2nd-4th c., BM 1970,0102.7 fisherman, youth: Jonah sarcophagus, c.250-early 4th c., marble, Vat 31448, which has its own page with more examples pastoral sarcophagus with lid from Via Prenestina (Christian?), painted and gilt, late 3rd/early 4th c., Vat 31485 (ex 150). This work has its own page. barbarian/soldier, 4th c., Munich Glyptothek. For other views see Munich. grave stone of the family of Claudia Maximilla with menorah, Alberti-Irsa 4th c., HNM 62. For other views see HNM. Mummy portrait, 4th c. Egypt, tempera, Florence MA. This work has its own page. barbarian prob. fr. sarcophagus Helena, 4th c., V&A A.102-1956. For other views see V&A. youth: gold-glass bowl, western Roman empire 4th c., SMBByz 3336 guards: sarcophagus from Cahors, marble, 4th c., Hermitage Ѡ-1209, which has its own page family, gold-glass 4th c., Hermitage E.2039 man w. workers building a ship, Dedalius gold-glass fr. cemetery Giordani on via Salaria, 4th c., Vat 60788.2.1 paralytic: gold-glass, 4th c., Vat 60686 blacksmith Flavius Saturninus, Christian gravestone, marble, 4th-5th c., fr. area San Martino di Terzo, Terzo d'Aquileia, ANAM. For full work see ANAM. grave marker for Heron, age 2, limestone, early 4th c. Terenouthis (Egypt), KM 0000.02.1002. For other views see Kelsey. man feeding wood to fire: 3 Hebrews in the Fiery Furnace, sarcophagus lid fragment from Rome, 1st third of 4th c., Vat 31471 (ex 134). For other views see Vatican Museums. soldiers, barbarians: Porphyry sarcophagus of Helena (d. c.330), 1st third of 4th c., Vat 238. This work has its own page. couple with PIE ZESES, gold-glass, c.300-350, KHM XIa 35 soldiers, servants: Passion sarcophagus, marble, c.350 CE, Vat 31525. This work has its own page. charioteer: VINCENTI NICA/ FANESTRO (cursive), gold-glass, c.350-400, KHM XI 1734 hunters: Italy? c.350-400, bronze/silver/copper, Louvre Br 3448/MND 889. For details see Louvre. man of Jerusalem: Junius Bassus sarcophagus, c.359, marble, Vat Tesoro 31529.3.1-3, which has its own page with soldiers soldiers: Passion/tree sarcophagus, marble, Rome c.360, Vat 28591. For other views see Vatican Museums. lady and attendants: Projecta Casket, silver and gold, c.380, BM 1866,1229.1, which has its own page with other ordinary people woman praying, limestone, late 4th c Egypt, Pushkin priestess or initiate and attendant: Symmachorum ivory, late 4th to early 5th c., V&A 212-1865, which has its own page nurse, maid, dancer: life of Dionysus, ivory pyxis, 5th c., Bologna pcr 12, which has its own page soldier of India, ivory pyxis, 5th-6th c., Trier? KHM X41, which has its own page deaf/mute, haemorrhoissa: Christian pyxis, ivory, 5th-6th c., Bologna BIZ 2, which has its own page St. Menas with *donors and camels, marble, 5th-7th c. Egypt, KHM I 1144. For details see KHM. witnesses, guards: Resurrection/Ascension, ivory, c.400, BNM MA 157, which has its own page. circus scenes, tinted ivory diptych, c.400, Louvre OA 9062 mothers and babies, soldier: Infancy/Miracle ivory, c.400-435, SMBByz 2719, which has its own page with a servant Eutropios, official of the street-building commission of Ephesus, marble, c.450-75, KHM I 880, which has its own page circus scenes, ivory diptych, 2nd half of 5th c., Hermitage. For detail see Hermitage. hero? buckle fr. Åker, c.450-600, OHM C4901, which has its own page sacrifice of a captive funeral cushion, linen and wool loop textile with inset, 6th c., Pushkin watchmen: ivory pyxis, 6th c., eastern Mediterranean, VHM, loan from Sion CT. This work has its own page. warrior or ruler ivory, 6th c. Egypt, on ambo, Aachen cathedral. The ambo and cathedral have their own pages with another ivory. fishers: miraculous fishing on Lake Tiberias (John 21), ceramic ampulla, 6th c., ANAM watchmen: buckle of St. Caesarius, ivory, early 6th c., Arles. This work has its own page. soldiers and court officials: Justinian and retinue, apse wall mosaic, Ravenna, Church of San Vitale, 527-48. This work has its own interior and exterior pages with Israelites and women of the court. soldier, barbarians: Barberini Diptych, ivory 527-65, Louvre OA 9063. This work has its own page. Ismaelites: Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page with people of Jerusalem, guards, and servants two people flanking Tree of Life, bronze buckle fr. Marchélepot, c. 550-600, SMB MVFg radiate-head bow brooches, copper alloy/gilt, late 6th-early 7th c. eastern Europe (Carpathians/Balkins?), Morgan 2012.2:79a,b thief: Sancta Sanctorum reliquary box, Syria/Palestine, late 6th-early 7th c. This work has its own page with another thief. pierced disk with rider, tinned copper alloy, 7th c., area of Amiens, BM 1891,1019.57 hero? Sutton Hoo purse lid, gold/garnet/glass, early 7th c., BM 1939,1010.2.a-l, which has its own page with another person soldiers: David and Goliath, Constantinople 629–30, Met 17.190.396, which has its own page with details glass cameo from Whitby monastery, late 7th-9th c. (Insular or Continental), on loan to BM from Strickland collection