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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.210.B
Title
Funerary Urn
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
2nd century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Etruria
Period
Hellenistic period
Culture
Etruscan
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/141950

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tufa
Dimensions
H. 43 x W. 57 x D. 27 cm (16 15/16 x 22 7/16 x 10 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.210.B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
115

Etruscan Funerary Urn and Lid

The urn and lid is worn, encrusted and chipped.

The woman lies on her left elbow and holds a dish (phiale) in her right hand. She appears to wear a wreath around her neck. Her proportions are almost obese, the work poor and crude with frequent incision.

The urn itself is a deep, rectangular box on two short legs. The interior is roughly hewn out. The major late Etruscan or Italic sites have yielded many such funerary ensembles. Those from around Volterra are distinguished by the interesting and imaginative carving of the front of the funerary box (Cristofani, 1977, pp. 32-45).

Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer

Publication History

  • Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 127, no. 115

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