Orpheus the ideal poet: Notes on the interpretation of the mythological and biblical representations of the Orpheus casket mounts from Intercisa, southeastern cemetery, grave 1023

Abstract The study analyses of the bronze mounts of the Orpheus casket with biblical and mythological representations. The casket was recovered in two stages, in 1903 and 1967 in the disturbed late Roman grave 1023 of the southeastern cemetery of Intercisa (Dunaújváros). After a brief iconographical analysis of the depictions of the casket, the contribution continues with the analysis of the earlier hypotheses concerning the interpretation of the Orpheus figure in early Christian art and in the Protrepticus of Clemens Alexandrinus from the point of view of the early Christian reception history of the Orpheus myth.