standardized and decorative elements. In order to put the Bosporan appliqués andtheir mythological implications in a wider context we can compare them with the few roughly contemporary Romansarcophagi which [...] Bosporan sarcophagiand the marble sarcophagi from Rome share death and flight as a central idea. However, the Romansarcophagi tell a narrative of death with clear indications of a mythological scene [...] The myth of the Niobids appears widely in ancient texts and images and takes a number of different forms, according to the purpose, medium andcontext of representation. Several authors provide us with variants

Carthaginian people and state and leave their loca , templa , and sacra ; arouse in the enemy metus , formido and oblivio ; prefer the Roman templa , loca and city; be favourable [...] invoked? Doubt, scrupulousness and caution [27] are constant and omnipresent in Roman religious practice: to avoid inaccuracies and unintentional errors, Romans developed some formulas intended [...] believes that Romans left the cult and the temple of the goddess on the spot and took the cults of Janus and Minerva to Rome [41] ; in Wissowa’s opinion both Iuno Curitis and Minerva were brought