Sarcophagus with a dextrarum iunctio and people in aediculae (unknown 42)

Found in 1971 in Portus. Now outside the museum in Ostia.
On the front three scenes are depicted. In the centre is the dextrarum iunctio of the deceased couple. To the left is a veiled bride with a female servant holding a casket. To the right is the husband, dressed in a toga, having a conversation with a bearded male figure, possibly the Genius Senatus. The sarcophagus is unfinished.
Date: 250-400 AD.

Arachne 1074241. Photos: Wikimedia, Sailko and Arachne and ICCD E073815, E073811 (detail of the left scene), E073812 (detail of the central scene), E073813 (detail of the right scene), E073814 (detail of the central scene).