chapter by Michael Koortbojian: Roman Sarcophagi

Barbara Borg's major new edited volume — A Companion to Roman Art (one of the heftiest in Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World lineup) — contains a chapter by Michael Koortbojian.  Titled simply "Roman Sarcophagi", it strives (as befits a piece in a Companion) to provide a general introduction to this class of objects.

In this it succeeds admirably.  Concise and accessible, it stands, to my mind, as the single best short introduction to Roman sarcophagi available in English.  I predict it will see widespread use in the classroom.

The full citation:
Koortbojian, Michael.  "Roman Sarcophagi."  In A Companion to Roman Art, edited by Barbara E. Borg, 286-300.  Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

Barbara Borg (ed.), A Companion to Roman Art (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).