Cinerary Urn

MS354A

Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS354A
Current Location Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display
Culture Etruscan
Provenience Mediterranean
Date Made 299-100 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic | Terracotta
Iconography Seven Against Thebes | Eteocles | Polyneices | Furies? | Grafitto
Description

Chest. Rectangular in plan, narrower below. Sides plain except for front which is decorated with a relief panel. Center: Eteocles and Polyneices killing each other (upright figure at left thrusting sword into chest of second figure, at right, kneeling on right knee, who thrusts his sword into lower abdomen of the first). Left and right, a female figure, both winged (?), wearing short chiton, torch in one hand, other arm outstretched toward center:Furies(?). A corinthian(?) pilaster at each end of scene. Above, a band of egg-and-dart in relief. On band above scene, possible traces of letters in red A[ } A hole, .13x.36m., rectangular with rounded corners, cut in top. Traces of white & red on panel.

Height 28 cm
Width 45.5 cm
Depth 21.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from the Estate of Francis C. Macauley, 1897

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