Detail of the scene of dextrarum iunctio from the Sarcophagus of the Aurelii, second quarter of the 3rd century AD. One of the best-known images, depicted on the right side of the case of the Sarcophagus of the Aurelii, is that of the so-called dextrarum iunctio

. La scena raffigura i due coniugi defunti, Marco Aurelio Marino e Aurelia Eutichia, In the act of shaking his right hand above an altar. Both figures are standing facing each other with the man, placed on the right, dressed in a toga and holding a scroll in his left hand and the woman, placed on the left, dressed in a chiton and himation. The scene represents one of the culminating moments of the wedding ceremony and was widespread in pagan and Christian Roman iconography from the latter stages of the Republican period until about 600 CE. When depicted on funerary monuments it alluded not only to the wedding ceremony but to more generic marital fidelity.