Late classical representations of Christ's miracles are often funerary in nature and focus on resurrection themes, but such themes are also favored in non-funerary pieces. Thus we see much of the raising of Lazarus, Noah (whose flood is a type of baptism), Jonah ("born again" after three days in the great fish), and survivors such as Daniel in the lions' den and the three men in the fiery furnace.
Examples:
4th
century
sarcophagus with Lazarus, Blind Man, Loaves and
Fishes
Another
sarcophagus: same era, same miracles
The Murano Diptych
The
Sarcophagus
of the Child
A sarcophagus
from Arles
Another
sarcophagus from Arles
6th century ivory diptychAt left, 4th-century catacombs painting, Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Another image of the Samaritan Woman with Christ:
Late classical ivory pyxMiracles seen on the 4th-century sarcophagus of Marcus Claudianus:
The blind
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