Harvard Art Museums > 1932.56.118: Late Etruscan Urn Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Late Etruscan Urn , 1932.56.118,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 17, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292109. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1932.56.118 Title Late Etruscan Urn Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date 3rd century BCE Period Hellenistic period Culture Etruscan Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292109 Physical Descriptions Medium Volcanic stone Dimensions 45 x 64 x 28 cm (17 11/16 x 25 3/16 x 11 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Dr. Harris Kennedy, Milton, MA (by 1932), gift; to the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, 1932. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Harris Kennedy, Class of 1894 Accession Year 1932 Object Number 1932.56.118 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990113 Late Etruscan Urn A winged genius appears on the front of the urn, in flying pose. Winged monsters and genii are very popular as symbolic, funerary decorations, carved and painted, on the fronts of late Etruscan or Italic urns. The painted travertine urn in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with an elegant lady on the lid, is dated in the third century B.C. and features a winged, fish-tailed female creature like Scylla on the front (Comstock, Vermeule, 1976, pp. 249-250, no. 385). The full catalogue of what the Etruscans after 350 B.C. sought in winged "genii" appears on both long sides of a sarcophagus from Bomarzo in the British Museum. They are both sexes and, demonstrably, of all ages—both young and elegant and old, grizzled, and wrinkled. Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Joshua Whatmough, "Two Etruscan Inscriptions", Classical Philology (1942), vol. 37, no. 4, p. 431 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. 125, no. 113 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
