book by Elsner and Huskinson (eds.): Life, Death, and Representation

A relatively recent collection of essays on Roman sarcophagi, edited by Jaś Elsner and Janet Huskinson, is — as far as I'm aware — the first edited volume of its kind in English.  It contains some gems.

The full reference:
Jaś Elsner and Janet Huskinson (eds.), Life, Death, and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi, Millennium Studies, no. 29 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011).

The essays therein:

      -     Jaś Elsner, "Introduction".

1. Glenys Davis, "Before Sarcophagi".
   
2. Janet Huskinson, "Habent sua fata: Writing Life Histories of Roman Sarcophagi".
   
3. Francisco Prado-Vilar, "Tragedy's Forgotten Beauty: The Medieval Return of Orestes".
   
4. Ben Russell, "The Roman Sarcophagus 'Industry': A Reconsideration".
   
5. van Keuren, Attanasio, Herrmann, Herz, and Gromet, "Multimethod Analyses of Roman Sarcophagi at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome".
   
6. Zahra Newby, "In the Guise of Gods and Heroes: Portrait Heads on Roman Mythological Sarcophagi".
   
7. Stine Birk, "Man or Woman? Cross-Gendering and Individuality on Third Century Roman Sarcophagi".
   
8. Björn Ewald, "Myth and Visual Narrative in the Second Sophistic — a Comparative Approach: Notes on an Attic Hippolytos Sarcophagus in Agrigento".
   
9. Katharina Lorenz, "Image in Distress? The Death of Meleager on Roman Sarcophagi".
   
10. Dennis Trout, "Borrowed Verse and Broken Narrative: Agency, Identity, and the (Bethesda) Sarcophagus of Bassa".
    
11. Jaś Elsner, "Image and Rhetoric in Early Christian Sarcophagi: Reflections on Jesus' Trial".
    
12. Edmund Thomas, "'Houses of the Dead'? Columnar Sarcophagi as 'Micro-Architecture'".